"I suspect that parsing performance worries date back to the period when parsing techniques were under heavy development. LR parsing was invented in 1965, a tim

"I suspect that parsing performance worries date back to the period when parsing techniques were under heavy development. LR parsing was invented in 1965, a time when computers were painfully slow [19] and resource poor. " "When combined with a couple of other techniques to squeeze the statetable’s memory footprint [22], even the most puny modern machine can run an arbitrary LR parser at impressive speeds."