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Size of produced parser: menhir vs ocamlyacc

Joel Reymont
- Francois Pottier
  - Markus Mottl
    - Joel Reymont
      - Markus Mottl
        
        Joel Reymont
        
        Markus Mottl
        
        skaller

Date:	-- (:)
From:	skaller <skaller@u...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] Size of produced parser: menhir vs ocamlyacc

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).

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