In article <3e1d1b30@news.povray.org> , "Vadim Sytnikov" <syt### [at] rucom>
wrote:

> I disagree. My point is that (i) POV-Ray's SDL structure is very linear, and
> (ii) the number of reserved words it currently has suggests that performance
> gain from using an FSM-based *scanner* would be even greater than the
> languages with far fewer nmbers of keywords enjoy (e.g. C/C++).

As we agreed on the scanner part already, here is another good point against
Yacc.  Obviously its grammars are hard to maintain and there is hardly a
worthwhile speed gain, otherwise the December 27th announcement on
<http://gcc.gnu.org/> would not make sense!

    Thorsten

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