Path: csiph.com!goblin3!goblin.stu.neva.ru!news.misty.com!news.iecc.com!.POSTED.news.iecc.com!nerds-end From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: comp.compilers Subject: Re: Parsing using a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)? Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2020 18:18:15 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 10 Sender: news@iecc.com Approved: comp.compilers@iecc.com Message-ID: <20-09-045@comp.compilers> References: <20-09-013@comp.compilers> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: gal.iecc.com; posting-host="news.iecc.com:2001:470:1f07:1126:0:676f:7373:6970"; logging-data="97934"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@iecc.com" Keywords: lex Posted-Date: 22 Sep 2020 20:24:41 EDT X-submission-address: compilers@iecc.com X-moderator-address: compilers-request@iecc.com X-FAQ-and-archives: http://compilers.iecc.com Xref: csiph.com comp.compilers:2616 > I hate getting overly involved in this, but not only is GPU lexing > possible, it probably isn't that complicated. Indeed. Extra bonus points if you do it generically by having the `lex` tool do that parallelization for you. I think in the general case it could be a potentially costly parallelization, but in practice it should be pretty efficient for most programming languages. Stefan