Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1995 14:41:34 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@tribe.com> To: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de Cc: fd11@dial.pipex.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Lex or Flex? Message-ID: <199512142241.OAA00935@bubba.tribe.com> In-Reply-To: <199512141638.RAA18231@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> from "Christoph Kukulies" at Dec 14, 95 05:38:56 pm
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> FreeBSD 2.1 is (still) using Flex 2.4.7. Though it is named lex > it really isn't. The naming is just for compatibility purposes with > Makefiles etc. And by the way, flex generates code that is way more efficient than lex (or at least the original version of lex). I actually heard a talk by the author of flex on the design & changes he made once, and it was pretty interesting how much improvement he got. -Archie _______________________________________________________________________________ Archie L. Cobbs, archie@tribe.com * Tribe Computer Works http://www.tribe.com
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