At 11:11 -0800 2005/03/02, Tzvetan Mikov wrote: >Hans Aberg wrote: >> 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) ...
LALR cannot be abandoned, as it is required (I feel sure) by Bison's POSIX Yacc compatibility requirement. Hans Aberg
