Aug. 23, 2002
7:56 a.m.
greg wrote:
It's an implementation problem. You find yourself doing a lot of string accessing and pasting, creating several new objects per input char.
Not necessarily! Plex manages to do it without any of that.
The trick is to leave all the characters in the input buffer and just *count* how many characters make up the next token.
you can do that without even looking at the characters? </F>