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From: lda@clyde.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.org.usenix
Subject: "Tuning UNIX Lex", Jacobson 1/87
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Date: Fri, 10-Apr-87 07:03:09 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 10 07:03:09 1987
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Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Whippany, NJ
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Keywords: Optimize, Lex, Parse, Token, wanted
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I was at the USENIX conference in Washington last January.
Van Jacobson (of Lawrence Berkeley Labs) presented a fantastic
paper on Tuning UNIX Lex in which he demonstrated incredible
performance improvments in the lex generated recognizer (lex
returned tokens a fast as getc returned characters).

Has anybody been able to get the code from him?  If so,  PLEASE
send it to me.  I (from AT&T Bell Labs) have enough UNIX source
licences to fill a small trunk, so there are no legality issues
to worry over.

Larry
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Larry D. Auton
(201)386-4272
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