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From: skaller <skaller@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Joel Reymont <joelr1@gmail.com>
Cc: Markus Mottl <markus.mottl@gmail.com>, Caml List <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Size of produced parser: menhir vs ocamlyacc
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 01:58:11 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1175270291.22118.100.camel@rosella.wigram> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8B056D49-B2F5-4352-B967-4B6FB482F3E0@gmail.com>

On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 15:28 +0100, Joel Reymont wrote:
> On Mar 30, 2007, at 3:26 PM, Markus Mottl wrote:
> 
> > Not very.  S-expressions, etc.  But I wouldn't be surprised if Menhir
> > performs better on more complex parsers, too.  Generating parser code
> > rather than tables may boost performance.
> 
> Why did you pick menhir over ocamlyacc? I assume it was to use it in  
> server code but thought I would ask anyway.

Note Ocamlyacc is LALR(1) whilst Menhir is LR(1).

-- 
John Skaller <skaller at users dot sf dot net>
Felix, successor to C++: http://felix.sf.net


  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-30 15:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-30 13:14 Joel Reymont
2007-03-30 13:31 ` [Caml-list] " Francois Pottier
2007-03-30 13:45   ` Markus Mottl
2007-03-30 13:51     ` Joel Reymont
2007-03-30 14:26       ` Markus Mottl
2007-03-30 14:28         ` Joel Reymont
2007-03-30 15:58           ` skaller [this message]
2007-04-01  0:42           ` Markus Mottl

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