On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Zeev Suraski wrote:
> At 00:26 10/7/2001, August Zajonc wrote:
> >You see this happen though all the time with other software.
> >
> >Media players don't need to have 10 ways to decode wav files, but they do.
>
> There's a very big difference here. It does *exactly* the same
> thing. Unlike codecs, which are all different. Here, it takes the same
> text, and translates it to the same tokens
It actually does not do that.
The language scanner performs some optimizations on a very
low level. The stream of tokens the new scanner produces is
thus different from the Zend scanner's output. And as I
might have mentioned on Saturday, it is not a port of the
Zend scanner to re2c. It is a complete new implementation
based on walking through zend_language_parser.h.
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