Re: Lexer and syntax highlighter powered by LPeg

["Andy Stark" <AStark@...>]

Lua list <lua@bazar2.conectiva.com.br> writes:
>> Although self-hosting compilers are not unusual, I suspect
>> it hasn't been done with a non-JIT interpreter before, except
>perhaps as a
>> research project.

>I suspect it's been done many times. If you're old enough to remember
>when 
>32Kb was a large amount of memory, you'll have seen them :)

Yeah, I am that old - I had a Dragon 32. I just meant that with a
self-hosting Lua interpreter, the parser would be written in (interpreted)
Lua. For the platforms that don't have LuaJIT this would presumably be
slower than the current parser which is considered one of Lua's strengths.

&.




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