Re: RFC: Introduce api.token.raw

[Akim Demaille]

> Le 1 sept. 2019 à 18:41, Akim Demaille <address@hidden> a écrit :
> 
> The NEWS excerpt should be a good summary of the purpose of this
> series of patches:
> 
>  *** Variable api.token.raw: Optimized token numbers (all skeletons)
> 
>  In the generated parsers, tokens have two numbers: the "external" token
>  number as returned by yylex (which starts at 257), and the "internal"
>  symbol number (which starts at 3).  Each time yylex is called, a table
>  lookup maps the external token number to the internal symbol number.
> 
>  When the %define variable api.token.raw is set, tokens are assigned their
>  internal number, which saves one table lookup per token, and also saves
>  the generation of the mapping table.
> 
>  The gain is typically moderate, but in extreme cases (very simple user
>  actions), a 10% improvement can be observed.
> 
> I would really appreciate to get feedback about this.  It is currently
> available on both my GitHub account and on the official Bison repo in
> the branch 'raw'.

Well, no feedback at all in two weeks.

Has been rebased, is currently being checked by the CI, and then will
be pushed in master.