Where to find a comparison of Flex/Bison, Ragel, ANTLR and others?

Question

I am intending to define a protocol similar to Open Sound Control, but a bit different.

The idea is quite complex, and I won't try to describe it here.

Suppose I was to implement an OSC library using libev and one of the tools in the subject line.

What would one recommend, and why?

Ragel seems quite tempting, though ANTLR may be the right thing too. However sticking to traditional UNIX things is also a good idea (i.e. lex/yacc).

Also I am mostly interested in what would be most suitable for an embedded platform (say 200MHz ARM chip running Linux).

Pretorius

I didn't add Lemon to the list; it might be worth considering. How much memory would be available on your embedded platform? – Yeseniayeshiva

You could start right here... #213400 ;) – Polite

I will have look at lemon then :) – Pretorius

However, may be with ragel I'd be able to design the entire app, but may be a cumbersome coding practice really..( – Pretorius

Answer 1

Wikipedia has a list that includes ANTLR, Lemon, Flex, Bison, Ragel, etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_parser_generators.

Revivify

#213400 similar topic – Serval

Answer 2

some opinions:

• Why you should not use (f)lex, yacc and bison
  • antlr supports unicode
• Using byacc+Ragel for memory efficient parsers
  • byacc needs less memory
  • (byacc should be replaced with lemon)

Peres