[Commit] mint-2004b tool.tex,1.10,1.11 translators.tex,1.3,1.4

[James LaMar]

Committed by: jlamar

Update of /local/src/CVS/mint-2004b
In directory home.keithp.com:/tmp/cvs-serv30658

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	tool.tex translators.tex 
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 \section{MINT}\label{sec-tool}
 
+Mint is a canonical parser generator with a unique architecture which
+lends itself to a variety of interesting applications, as well as
+streamlining tasks that are related to syntatic analysis.
+
 \subsection{Design}
 
 There are three elements in the design of MINT that differentiate it

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 addition symbol and the multiplication symbol are untagged: they
 will not be included in the resulting syntax tree.
 
+\subsection{Evaluation}
+
+For some grammars, particularly ambiguous ones involving precedence, the 
+implementation of parser generator performed extremely poorly even for
+a modestly-sized grammar.  It seems the structure of the grammar had more
+to do with the degraded performance than size did, suggesting that an
+opportunity for further optimization exists.
+
+
+