Re: Looking for the original paper on tuning Lex

From	arnold@skeeve.com (Aharon Robbins)
Newsgroups	comp.compilers
Subject	Re: Looking for the original paper on tuning Lex
Date	2020-06-21 09:36 +0000
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In article <20-06-003@comp.compilers>,
Arnold Robbins  <arnold@skeeve.com> wrote:
>Vern Paxson presented his work on tuning Lex at the 1987 Washington
>USENIX conference. The proceedings had just an abstract, now
>available here:
>
>https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Documentation/Papers/TuningUnixLex_Jacobson_USENIX_Winter_1987_pp163_164.pdf
>
>Is the full paper available anywhere?  It looks like it'd be worthwhile
>reading, even today.

Turns out the work was done by Van Jacobsen.  I've still had no
luck finding a copy.

In 1984 Vern Paxson did do work related to Lex; he implemented a version
in Ratfor for the Software Tools.
--
Aharon (Arnold) Robbins 		arnold AT skeeve DOT com
[The code for AT&T lex was dreadful, mostly written by a summer intern.
These days we all use flex which likely does all of the stuff in the
Jaconson paper. -John]

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Looking for the original paper on tuning Lex Arnold Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> - 2020-06-15 06:06 +0000
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