In an earlier version of this series, Simon noticed that something
like "ptype struct type" was much slower.
The deep problem here is the hack in best_symbol -- in this particular
case the C parser is including SEARCH_VAR_DOMAIN, which means that a
type is not "best".
Fixing best_symbol would be good to do, but it's difficult and I
already had many struggles getting this series to this point. So,
rather than fix that, I elected to modify the parser.
The key insight here is that the name lookup in classify_name is
useless when a tag name is expected. This patch adds a flag so that
this lookup is not done. (Incidentally, this kind of thing is much
more straightforward in a recursive descent parser, something like
classify_name would only be applied post-lexing where appropriate.)
This change speeds up the lookup by avoiding the best_symbol hack,
instead searching only for a type.
Acked-By: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@efficios.com> Reviewed-By: Guinevere Larsen <guinevere@redhat.com>