Re: A possible way for CC Mode to resolve its sluggishness

[Óscar Fuentes]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

> Maybe if we want to speed things up, we should consider a new parsing
> engine (instead of parse-partial-sexp and syntax-tables) based maybe on
> a DFA for the tokenizer and GLR parser on top.  That might arguably be
> more generally useful and easier to use (in the sense that one can more
> or less follow the language spec when implementing the major mode).

No parser will provide the information that cc-mode needs to properly
indent and colorize C++ code. Only a C++ front-end, which performs
semantic analysis, knows that information.