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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

#2524 — Looking for the original paper on tuning Lex

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.

Thanks,

Arnold

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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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