>>228GUI and maybe the HTTP(S) libs. Asm is tokeniser only, but I want to extend it to the parser too, and entity parsing/copy-to-DOM is also being rewritten in Asm. Looking at compiler output makes me want to facepalm continuously. Fixed calling conventions are stupid. In C I can't pass 6 parameters by reference and have them all in registers; easy with Asm but turns into bloated memory accesses in C.
>>230,231Yes, that's the point. Netsurf and Dil
dlo (the former is even larger than a fully-featured browser which does pass Acid2, Opera 9.x) are
not "lightweight". They just pretend to be. The former has a ridiculously bloated parser created by GSoC noobs. The latter doesn't have much of a parser at all, yet oddly enough still has this useless crap:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dillo%27s_bug_meter_on_www.nasa.gov.png --- since HTML5 standardised parsing there is really no such thing as a "parse error", and any stream of bytes turns into a DOM. What they call "parse error"s in the spec are just semantic "I don't like this" bullshit. For example
<foo a="b"c="d"e='f'g=h> parses sensibly but the prescriptivists shout "no, that's an error, you must have whitespace between attributes" --- even when it's not actually necessary and both human and machine would know exactly how to parse it.
IRL is getting very busy again, not much time for this now.
