Re: Looking for the original paper on tuning Lex

arnold@skeeve.com (Aharon Robbins)
Sun, 21 Jun 2020 09:36:22 -0000 (UTC)

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Re: Looking for the original paper on tuning Lex arnold@skeeve.com (2020-06-21)
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From: arnold@skeeve.com (Aharon Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2020 09:36:22 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
References: 20-06-003
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Keywords: lex, question, comment
Posted-Date: 21 Jun 2020 10:42:35 EDT

In article 20-06-003,
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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