Re: parser


"Jon Harrop" <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:_vqdnUofQ8c4cFrVnZ2dnUVZ8qXinZ2d@xxxxxxxxx
Bartc wrote:
"Jon Harrop" <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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[ "while"; p=expr; "do"; b=expr; "od" ->

I have to take your word that this does what you say it does.

You can verify that it works for yourself:

http://brion.inria.fr/gallium/index.php/Camlp4

Again, all I could see was an example for a trivial language.

But I came across this from: http://flint.cs.yale.edu/cs421/case-for-ml.html:

"...10. Did I mention that Ocaml is fast? I wrote a compiler for
an actuarial financial modelling language in Ocaml, probably
10K lines of code, that would have been 20K or more in C++,..."

This 2:1 factor sounds more reasonable than your 10:1 claim, and is in line with your figures in another post.

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Bartc

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