[Lazarus] Using FPC parser/tokenizer for code formatting

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Mon, 31 May 2010, Adem wrote:

> On 2010-05-31 15:42, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>> 
>> On Mon, 31 May 2010, Adem wrote:
>>> True. In order to avoid this sort of thing all together, the best solution 
>>> would be making the compiler use a parse tree.
>> Florian already explained at the start of the discussion that this is not 
>> feasable because of speed and memory penalties.
>> 
> I am not a compiler author, so I do not wish to be arguing with experts; but, 
> it's not as if we have both alternatives to measure and chose the best on the 
> aggregate.
>
> I can see that it is expected to be slower and will need more memory; but, we 
> don't know is how much slower and how much more memory it will need. And, 
> whether these will be noticeable/bearable considering what we gey out of it.

To that we can reply now: No, it will not be bearable.

We get enough complaints about speed/memory use as it is.

Any additional slowdown is therefor simply not an option.

Michael.