Re: Is handwritten faster?

[John R. Levine]

> > A more important point is that the time spent in the parser is never
> > significant.  If your compiler is simple, the bulk of the time is
> > in the lexer since it has to touch each character in the input.  If
> > your compiler is sophisticated, it'll spend a its time in analysis and
> > optimization.
>
> For scripting language implementations, I tend to disagree.

I'm wondering how much of that is the parser and how much is the lexer.

R's,
John