On 2/28/13 3:34 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
> It's
> possible to vastly reduce the size of the scanner output, and
> therefore of gram.c, by running flex with -Cf rather than -CF, which
> changes the table representation completely. I assume there is a
> sound performance reason why we don't do this, but it might be worth
> checking that if we haven't lately. When compiled with -Cf, the size
> of gram.o drops from 1019260 bytes to 703600, which is a large
> savings.
The option choice is based on the recommendation in the flex manual. It
wouldn't hurt to re-test it.