Re: Parsing using a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)?

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Tue, 22 Sep 2020 18:18:15 -0400

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2020 18:18:15 -0400
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Posted-Date: 22 Sep 2020 20:24:41 EDT

> I hate getting overly involved in this, but not only is GPU lexing
> possible, it probably isn't that complicated.


Indeed. Extra bonus points if you do it generically by having the `lex`
tool do that parallelization for you. I think in the general case it
could be a potentially costly parallelization, but in practice it should
be pretty efficient for most programming languages.




                Stefan


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