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Date:      Sat, 7 Dec 1996 11:04:56 GMT
From:      rb@gid.co.uk (Bob Bishop)
To:        Ade Barkah <mbarkah@hemi.com>
Cc:        terry@lambert.org, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Yacc -p<NAME> is broken
Message-ID:  <v01540b00aeceff3021e0@[194.32.164.2]>

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At 5:48 pm 6/12/96, Ade Barkah wrote:
>[...]
>REJECT is very expensive and tremendously slows down the scanner,
>especially used extensively in this manner.

Yeah, I have to admit that for (say) a compiler I'd avoid REJECT. I've only
used it much in a heavy data analysis application where the lex/parse is
well under 1% of the total runtime.


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