A new lexer is noticeably faster and memory efficient
(although splitting a file to tokens is negligible in a whole pipeline).
But the purpose of rewriting lexer was not just to speed up,
but to allow writing code without spaces:
`2+2` is now 4, not a valid identifier as earlier.
The variety of symbols allowed in identifier has greatly reduced
and is now similar to other languages.
SrcLocation became 8 bytes on stack everywhere.
Command-line flags were also reworked:
- the input for Tolk compiler is only a single file now, it's parsed, and parsing continues while new #include are resolved
- flags like -A -P and so on are no more needed, actually
All changes from PR "FunC v0.5.0":
https://github.com/ton-blockchain/ton/pull/1026
Instead of developing FunC, we decided to fork it.
BTW, the first Tolk release will be v0.6,
a metaphor of FunC v0.5 that missed a chance to occur.
The Tolk Language will be positioned as "next-generation FunC".
It's literally a fork of a FunC compiler,
introducing familiar syntax similar to TypeScript,
but leaving all low-level optimizations untouched.
Note, that FunC sources are partially stored
in the parser/ folder (shared with TL/B).
In Tolk, nothing is shared.
Everything from parser/ is copied into tolk/ folder.