From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2006-07-26T09:03:40+09:00
Subject: Re: rdoc grows to large size.

On Jul 25, 2006, at 9:56 AM, Berger, Daniel wrote:
>> On Jul 25, 2006, at 3:21 AM, Hugh Sasse wrote:
>>> I suppose one might clone these, then modify them to extract
>>> information from comments as well as code.  I think it would be
>>> nontrivial, which is probably why people are satisfied with what
>>> works well at present.
>>
>> Comment nodes could be added to Ruby's interpreter, but I think matz
>> has given some reason or another why they aren't in the AST.
>
> If only Rockit 0.8.0 were here....
>
> Robert Feldt, save us from the regular expression horror of rdoc!!!

My gut tells me the parsing is not what gives RDoc a large memory  
footprint.

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