Re: A Lua parser implemented in JavaScript

["jonsmirl@..." <jonsmirl@...>]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Oskar Schöldström <public@oxy.fi> wrote:
> I've written a recursive descent Lua parser in JavaScript,
> http://oxyc.github.com/luaparse/. This was done for my bachelor's thesis
> and I'm planning to continue working on it to to add some missing
> features.
>
> The implementation has put a lot of focus on performance, currently it
> parses 5000 syntax nodes (1200 SLOC) in ~2ms with Node.js. In contrast a
> simple parser generated by Jison (http://zaach.github.com/jison/) parses
> the same code in ~110ms. I also benchmarked the Jison parser using my
> own lexer, putting it at ~50ms.
>
> Essential features that are currently missing but hopefully coming soon:
> - Tolerant error handling
> - Location tracking
>
> I hope someone can find use of this.

Corona is a cross platform app system for Android and IOS that uses
Lua. I'm not very familiar with it but maybe you could use this as a
basis for adding Web/browsers as another platform in Corona.
http://www.coronalabs.com/

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> Oskar Schöldström
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