What is the maximum number of lines of code that a source file should contain to prevent perf degradation?
On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 8:16 PM Daniel.Sun <sun...@apache.org> wrote: > I find antlr4 parser parses *big* files much slower than antlr2 parser, > unfortunately nextflow project contains quite a few big files... > > One of reasons is antlr2 uses LL(k) and antlr4 uses ALL. As we know, LL(k) > will look ahead *limited* count of tokens, but ALL will look ahead > *unlimited* count of tokens... > > I am trying to tweak rules to reduce looking ahead, but we have to admit > that Groovy's grammar contains ambiguities, one of main reasons is > parenthesis-less... As a user, I like it, but as a developer, I hate it... > > Cheers, > Daniel.Sun > > > > ----- > Apache Groovy committer & PMC member > Blog: http://blog.sunlan.me > Twitter: @daniel_sun > > -- > Sent from: http://groovy.329449.n5.nabble.com/Groovy-Dev-f372993.html >
