Re: Tokenizing

[Stephen Leake]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

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> Do you plan to reparse continuously to keep the token structure up to
> date all the time?

That's the approach I'm using in Ada mode. 

Tokenizing the whole buffer after any change is easily fast enough (on
modern hardware), even on a 7000 line buffer. Semantic parsing gets a
lot slower.

But for the Ada language, incremental semantic parsing really isn't an
option. 

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