parsing.md

Parsers and compilers

Table of contents

• Parsers
  • Bottom-up
    • Shunting yard algorithm
  • Parsing XML
• Compilers
  • Introduction and overview
  • Optimizations

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Parsers

Bottom-up

Shunting yard algorithm

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• Shunting-yard algorithm – Wikipedia
• Shunting yard algorithm – PEGWiki
• T.Norvell. Parsing expressions by recursive descent
• N.Reed. The shunting-yard algorithm – N.Reed blog
• Z.Nasibov. Inside the mathematical expressions evaluator – CodeProject
• B.Miller, D.Ranum. General infix-to-postfix conversion

Parsing XML

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• A.Kapoulkine. Parsing XML at the speed of light – The Performance of Open Source Applications

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Compilers

See also Optimizations – Hardware, optimization, and OS internals.

Introduction and overview

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• A.Balaam. How to write a programming language: Part 1, The lexer – Overload 145 (2018)
• A.Balaam. How to write a programming language: Part 2, The parser – Overload 146 (2018)
• A.Balaam. How to write a programming language: Part 3, The evaluator – Overload 147 (2018)

Optimizations

See also

• G.Horváth. Algorithms from a compiler developer’s toolbox – C++Now (2021