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qznc on Feb 1, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: C++ Grandmaster Certification

Pretty much all the good compilers (gcc,clang,...) have a hand-written parser. An exception is javac, but that one is a minimalistic parser.

Handwritten parsers have better error reporting and might even be faster.

Locke1689 on Feb 1, 2013 [–]

Yes, that's called a production compiler.

If you glance in my profile you will see I'm well aware of the practices of production compilers and also how few people ever even look inside one.

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