In article <
20-06-003@comp.compilers>,
Arnold Robbins <
arnold@skeeve.com> wrote:
Vern Paxson presented his work on tuning Lex at the 1987 Washington
USENIX conference. The proceedings had just an abstract, now
available here:
https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Documentation/Papers/TuningUnixLex_Jacobson_USENIX_Winter_1987_pp163_164.pdf
Is the full paper available anywhere? It looks like it'd be worthwhile >reading, even today.
Turns out the work was done by Van Jacobsen. I've still had no
luck finding a copy.
In 1984 Vern Paxson did do work related to Lex; he implemented a version
in Ratfor for the Software Tools.
--
Aharon (Arnold) Robbins arnold AT skeeve DOT com
[The code for AT&T lex was dreadful, mostly written by a summer intern.
These days we all use flex which likely does all of the stuff in the
Jaconson paper. -John]
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