Re: Have we out-grown Flex?

From: james <james(at)mansionfamily(dot)plus(dot)com>
To: Daniel Farina <daniel(at)heroku(dot)com>
Cc: Peter Geoghegan <peter(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Have we out-grown Flex?
Date: 2012-05-03 20:03:29
Message-ID: 4FA2E491.2020302@mansionfamily.plus.com
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I believe there are tools that are significantly faster than flex. I
believe re2c generates code that is faster. But the key thing is to
test, probably, or perhaps ask around. I'm out of touch, but from
memory flex wasn't the be-all and end-all.

Lemon is definitely easy to maintain/port and the result is pretty nice,
too (I know Bison/Yacc wasn't the focus here).

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