Re: [PATCH] [RESEND] GRUB script lexer rewrite using flex

[BVK Chaitanya]

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Robert Millan <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 10:39:47AM +0530, BVK Chaitanya wrote:
>> Attached is the updated patch with changes as per review comments (by
>> phcoder).  With these changes sh.mod file size is reduced from 38K to
>> 28K :-)
>
> Very nice!  But I thought the flex-based rewrite would involve some size
> increase.  Has this changed, or I'm missing something?
>

Yes, original non-flex lexer was only 15K.  So we still have around
15K increase.

First flex-lexer version resulted in 38K, but after implementing code
review suggestions, it came down to 28K.  I guess the reason might be
because I replaced some macros with functions.



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