Re: Determining LR(k)-ness

[Philip Aker]

On 2009-11-18, at 17:33:26, John R. Levine wrote:

> > > It is my impression that most practical GLR grammars have parses  
> > > that collapse pretty quickly after they split,
> >
> > For the info which I would find useful, this would be an important  
> > part -- i.e.
> >
> > glrinfo: split level 1, split at state 216 (somename:  
> > someothername, …)
>
> Bison doesn't know how much an actual parse will split, since the  
> splits happen at runtime, not at compile time.  All it knows is that  
> if one of the parses gets to state N, it'll split and continue

Thanks John,

I was anticipating a runtime readout but if there aren't any glr stats  
available …


Philip Aker
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