Re: gcc compile-time performance

[Akim Demaille]

>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Koning <address@hidden> writes:

Paul> Excerpt of message (sent 20 May 2002) by Hans Aberg:
>> As noted by Paul Hilfinger in the Bug Bison list, widespread access
>> to interactive computing makes it more prudent with a "compile to
>> the first syntax error, fix, and repeat" approach.

Paul> That makes no sense to me at all.  If I could only fix one typo
Paul> at a time, progress would be quite a bit slower.

I think Hans somewhat distorted Paul Hilfinger's statements.  Paul
also did mention the poor quality of today's error-recovery/correction
schemes as compared to what the 80's had brought.

No one here claims Bison's perfect wrt this!