As for the other question, I have come, at least initially, to the same
conclusion as you, that LR(1) without table compression is probably fully
acceptable on todays computers.
Once I had to do the unthinkable - I ran a Bison generated parser - with some hand tweaking - in a 8051 (in retrospect recursive descent would have been better, but wouldn't have brought the same sense of accomplishment :-) ). So, whatever is decided, please don't abandon the good old LRAR(1) ...
regards, Tzvetan
