Re: Grammar to automation translation at runtime (NOT at compile time)?

Sreenivas Viswanadha <sreeni@viswanadha.net>
18 May 2003 01:25:41 -0400

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From: Sreenivas Viswanadha <sreeni@viswanadha.net>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 18 May 2003 01:25:41 -0400
Organization: AT&T Broadband
References: 03-05-085
Keywords: parse
Posted-Date: 18 May 2003 01:25:41 EDT

> Therefore, my question is if there is any thought/effort to make the
> grammar to automation (a computational service) make available at run
> time? I am interested in CFG based generators (current impls are
> JavaCC, ANTLR).


The JavaCC lexer generator builds a full FA during the process of
generating the lexer. I have a private prototype that can be used as a
dynamic lexer. The lexer generation is fast, but it runs slower than
the generated and compiled version. I haven't given much thought to
the CFG part though.


Sreeni.

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