[m-rev.] for review: reduce the parser's memory consumption

[Zoltan Somogyi]

For tryout and review by Julien. My laptop's timing variability is bigger
than the performance effect of this change; I hope you can measure its impact
using Opturion's server class machines.

Zoltan.
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