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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:	2007-03-30 (13:45)
From:	Markus Mottl <markus.mottl@g...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] Size of produced parser: menhir vs ocamlyacc

On 3/30/07, Francois Pottier <Francois.Pottier@inria.fr> wrote:
> > I hope parsers produced by menhir is just as fast as those produce by
> > ocamlyacc during execution!
>
> We did not perform any serious measurements, but we believe that we are
> competitive. If you run a comparison, we would be interested in knowing
> about the results.

I also haven't done any serious benchmarks, but I remember seeing
menhir beat ocamlyacc on some of my parsers.

Regards,
Markus

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