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From: Jan Ziak <0xe2.0x9a.0x9b@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Parsing using a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)?
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On Tuesday, September 1, 2020 at 6:03:27 PM UTC+2, Christian Gollwitzer wrote:
> The parser reads the input as a stream of
> tokens; you can't split the C file at some arbitrary point in half and
> parse both parts independently.

Of course you can split asm/C/C++/Go/Python/Rust/etc file at arbitrary
points: when the state of the lexical analyzer collapses to a single
state starting from a random file position with an arbitrary starting
state.

-atom