Re: Parsing using a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)?

From	Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@netscape.net>
Newsgroups	comp.compilers
Subject	Re: Parsing using a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)?
Date	2020-09-02 22:34 +0200
Organization	Compilers Central
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Am 02.09.2020 um 11:13 schrieb Jan Ziak:
> 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:

Certainly not for C/C++. The preprocessor and included files modify the
original source. That's one of the reasons for the slow C/C++ compilation.

> when the state of the lexical analyzer collapses to a single
> state starting from a random file position with an arbitrary starting
> state.

If you mean the lexer by "lexical analysis", that's only a front end for
the parser. A compiler needs more state and context information like
symbol tables, which can not be built from arbitrary parts of a source file.

DoDi
[One can certainly pipeline the C preprocessor and later phases but I'm
guessing that's not what you're talking about here. -John]

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Parsing using a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)? Roger L Costello <costello@mitre.org> - 2020-08-31 10:35 +0000
  Re: Parsing using a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)? Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2020-09-01 09:22 +0200
    Re: Parsing using a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)? Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@netscape.net> - 2020-09-01 19:02 +0200
    Parsing using a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)? Christopher F Clark <christopher.f.clark@compiler-resources.com> - 2020-09-02 01:14 +0300
    Re: Parsing using a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)? Jan Ziak <0xe2.0x9a.0x9b@gmail.com> - 2020-09-02 02:13 -0700
      Re: Parsing using a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)? Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@netscape.net> - 2020-09-02 22:34 +0200
  Re: Parsing using a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)? "A. K." <minforth@arcor.de> - 2020-09-01 01:25 -0700
    Re: Parsing using a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)? arnold@skeeve.com (Aharon Robbins) - 2020-09-02 05:43 +0000
  Re: Parsing using a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)? Elijah Stone <elronnd@elronnd.net> - 2020-09-01 20:13 -0700
    Re: Parsing using a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)? Roger L Costello <costello@mitre.org> - 2020-09-02 11:45 +0000
  Re: Parsing using a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)? Christopher F Clark <christopher.f.clark@compiler-resources.com> - 2020-09-02 17:57 +0300
  Re: Parsing using a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)? gah4 <gah4@u.washington.edu> - 2020-09-09 14:09 -0700

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