To further study the behavior of the generated parsers, we
analyzed their memory consumption. While a high memory
consumption may not be a problem on high-end systems,
high memory consumption can be prohibitive on handheld
devices, and may also explain some of the runtime performance
behavior. Figure 8 shows our results. Interestingly,
the JavaScript memory usage is not significantly higher than
the memory use on Java. We see this as a strong indication
that the platform indeed is suitable for tasks such as parsing.
Taking a closer look at the graph, the memory usage in Java-
Script appears to be linear, increasing at roughly 5.5 MB per
100 lines of code