Recursive descent has been around forever, the Wikipedia[1] page mentions a reference from 1975[2]. What recent advances have there been in parsing performance?
> 1. Current software practices are wasteful, and it's getting worse
> 2. According to 1. most performance improvements can be attributed to HW gains.
Agreed.
3. Even when there were advances in software performance, they were outpaced by HW improvements, certainly typically and almost invariably.
Recursive descent has been around forever, the Wikipedia[1] page mentions a reference from 1975[2]. What recent advances have there been in parsing performance?
> 1. Current software practices are wasteful, and it's getting worse
> 2. According to 1. most performance improvements can be attributed to HW gains.
Agreed.
3. Even when there were advances in software performance, they were outpaced by HW improvements, certainly typically and almost invariably.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_descent_parser#Refer...
[2] https://archive.org/details/recursiveprogram0000burg