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31 Jul 2024 06:18:34 EDT (-0400)
  Re: New SDL: support for lexical scanner generators  
From: Tom York
Date: 4 Oct 2007 18:10:01
Message: <web.470564a984df99867d55e4a40@news.povray.org>
"Wolf" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> Maybe a hand-written scanner is faster than a generated one, but speed
> considerations should not be overweighted here as the parsing time is
> negligible  compared to the rendering time.

I find parsing can easily be comparable to the render time for the scenes I
render (use of meshes and medium-complexity macros). I don't really have a
point, except to say that I don't think I'd stick with it if the parsing
got any slower in future versions.

Tom


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