Re: GScanner

From: Tim Janik <timj gtk org>
To: Michal Burda <michal burda centrum cz>
Cc: "GTK forum (gtk-list)" <gtk-list gnome org>
Subject: Re: GScanner
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 05:52:58 +0100 (CET)

On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Michal Burda wrote:

> Why to use GScanner since there is Flex?
> Is GScanner in something better than Flex output?

flex is slower by orders of magnitude and gets very
inefficient as many static symbols arrive.
gscanner can also be used pretty esily to tokenize
in memory strings without generating lexing tables
and its runtime configurable for most things.

these are the main historical reasons gscanner was introduced.

> 
> M. Burda
> 

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ciaoTJ

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