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| From | arnold@skeeve.com (Aharon Robbins) |
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| Subject | Re: Looking for the original paper on tuning Lex |
| Date | Sun, 21 Jun 2020 09:36:22 -0000 (UTC) |
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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 Re: Looking for the original paper on tuning Lex arnold@skeeve.com (Aharon Robbins) - 2020-06-21 09:36 +0000
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