Re: Whitespace in LilyPond source files

[Johan Vromans]

On Wed, 18 May 2016 20:03:54 +1000
Andrew Bernard <address@hidden> wrote:

> This
> means that for every whitespace lexeme in a source file a lexer has to
> do 8 or 9 or 10 comparisons for spaces, probably more if you make a
> full list of all the Unicode space objects.

You make implementation assumptions. Have you checked?

> In large files, the slow
> down in compile time would probably be measurable.

Again, assumptions.

Please never let the fear of slowdown get in the way of sensible
improvements.

-- Johan