Re: Beginner help with LALR(1) closure

Gianni Mariani <gianni@engr.sgi.com>
3 Dec 1996 20:51:26 -0500

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From: Gianni Mariani <gianni@engr.sgi.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 3 Dec 1996 20:51:26 -0500
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
References: 96-11-080 96-11-088 96-11-127
Keywords: parse, books

Daniel J. Salomon wrote:
>
> Woa! That's a pretty heavy-duty reference for a beginner. Their
> method is more efficient than the ones given in the Dragon book, but
> quite complex to understand from their paper. If he really does want
> to do efficient generation of LALR(1) sets, he can check the shorter
> and clearer explanation of DeRemer and Pennello's paper in Tremblay &
> Sorenson "The Theory and Practice of Compiler Writing" McGraw Hill,
> 1985 page 375. I used this simplified description to teach the
> algorithm to my graduate students.
>


Do we care any more ? Are LR(1) tables so big that todays processors
are unable to deal with them effectivly ? (seem X lately ?).
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