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by Darmani 1368 days ago
> If you are not already convinced that this property is important, I am not sure that I can convince you, except to ask whether you would be comfortable running, e.g., a worst-case-O(n^3) parser for a real industrial language in production. (Or, for that matter, running a parser such as GLR which may fail with an ambiguity at parse time.

Looks like it stops here. Yes, I am comfortable running such algorithms in production. Github code-nav uses GLR parsing (via tree-sitter) on a large fraction of the code in existence.