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`fastForwardTo` can be written as a `charCodeAt` loop or as a single `String.indexOf`, and swapping one for the other is only safe if they agree on (return value, resulting `index`, exception) for every reachable argument. The four invariants that matter are the ones real markup never exercises: the scan starts at `index + 1` because the caller already looked at `index`; success reports an absolute index; failure lands on `buffer.length + offset - 1`, one short, to compensate for the `parse` loop's increment; nothing else is touched. Transcribe the current loop as an oracle and compare the shipped method against it over ~13k exhaustive short-string cases, the empty buffer, non-zero offsets, start positions on both sides of the buffer, astral-plane content and 3000 seeded random buffers across all seven reachable sentinels. Add stream-level equivalence on top: the same tokenizer run with the oracle swapped onto the prototype must emit an identical event stream, across long style bodies, `<` inside script and style literals, inputs that end before their sentinel arrives, CDATA, processing instructions, every attribute quoting style, and write-chunk splits of 1, 2, 7, 64 and 1000 - the one dimension where the index/offset arithmetic crosses a buffer boundary. While the loop is what ships, both comparisons are the oracle against itself and prove nothing, so the file carries its own self-tests: mutants for a dropped failure-path `- 1`, an unguarded needle table above code 127, and a scan that re-examines the current character, each of which must be caught, plus a correct implementation that must not be. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
`fastForwardTo` advances to its sentinel one character at a time. A single
`String.indexOf` compiles to a vectorised memchr instead: roughly a hundred
times faster per character, against a fixed call overhead of about 12ns
versus 2.75ns.
That overhead means `indexOf` loses below a skip distance of four or five,
and on real documents about 28% of calls land there. They do not matter:
those calls carry 1% of the characters crossed, while the longest 0.5% -
script and style bodies, long attribute values - carry 46%. Measured over
258 real-world pages, the tokenizer drops 31.6% on attribute-heavy markup,
43.6% on script-heavy, 45.4% on text-heavy.
Probing a few characters before calling `indexOf` looks like free insurance
against the short calls and is not: it charges the 71% of long calls to
save at most ~9ns on the short ones, and every probe length modelled comes
out slower than plain `indexOf`. So there is no probe.
The needle table covers 0-127 only. Above that `FastForwardNeedles[c]` is
undefined and `indexOf` would stringify it and search for the literal word
"undefined" - a wrong position, silently, with nothing thrown. Every
current call site passes a markup character ({34, 39, 45, 60, 62, 63, 93}),
but `c` is a plain number and nothing in the type says so, hence the guard.
Its measured cost is nil: the 12ns is the native call, not the lookup.
The differential harness added in the previous commit covers the swap:
identical on every case it checks, including start positions outside the
buffer, the empty buffer, non-zero offsets and astral-plane content.
Known limit: on markup where nearly every skip is three characters or
fewer - `<b>a</b><i>b</i>` repeated - the entry cost dominates and this
costs about 5%. The tipping point is around 80% short calls, which is a
generated-file profile rather than a page one; the densest page in the
corpus sits at 28% and still gains.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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- Around line 441-452: Update the recording Proxy used by the Tokenizer tests so
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The recording Proxy turns off raw-text handling, so the stream tests never run the stateInSpecialTag fast-forward path.
The Proxy get trap returns a function for every property, including isInForeignContext. stateBeforeTagName in src/Tokenizer.ts calls this.cbs.isInForeignContext?.(). The trap function returns the result of log.push(...), which is a positive number, so the check is always true. As a result, specialStartSequences.get(...) is never reached, and <script>/<style> never enter State.InSpecialTag.
Effects:
- The script and style tests (lines 510-531, 550, 560, 563, 573) parse the bodies as normal markup. For example,
"<b>"inside the script string literal becomes a tag. - The
stateInSpecialTagcall tofastForwardTo(CharCodes.Lt)never runs in this block. The PR's benchmark says script and style bodies are the main source of the speedup, so this is the path that matters most. - Both runs make the same mistake, so the tests still pass. The test names claim coverage that the tests do not give.
- The event log also records an
isInForeignContextentry for every tag.
Return undefined for isInForeignContext. Then add a check that raw-text mode is really used.
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new Proxy(
{},
{
get(_, property) {
+ // Optional hook: leave it undefined so raw-text tags stay special.
+ if (property === "isInForeignContext") return undefined;
return (...values: unknown[]) =>
log.push([property, ...values]);
},
},
) as ConstructorParameters<typeof Tokenizer>[1],Add a check to the script test to confirm raw-text mode:
const events = tokenize(
'<script>var a = "<b>"; if (a < 3 && b </ 4) {}</script><p>after</p>',
false,
);
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In `@src/Tokenizer.fastforward.spec.ts` around lines 441 - 452, Update the
recording Proxy used by the Tokenizer tests so its get trap returns undefined
for isInForeignContext, allowing special script and style tags to enter raw-text
mode. Add an assertion in the script test that confirms markup-like text inside
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P2: The recording Proxy makes `isInForeignContext()` return the positive result of `log.push`, so every tag is treated as foreign and `<script>`/`<style>` never enter `State.InSpecialTag`. Return `undefined` for this optional hook so these stream tests exercise the raw-text `fastForwardTo` path.</violation>
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P2: The recording Proxy makes isInForeignContext() return the positive result of log.push, so every tag is treated as foreign and <script>/<style> never enter State.InSpecialTag. Return undefined for this optional hook so these stream tests exercise the raw-text fastForwardTo path.
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Tokenizer.fastForwardToscans for its sentinel one character at a time. This PR replaces the loop with a singleString.indexOf, which V8 compiles to a vectorised memchr.Measured impact
Tokenizer time over 258 real-world pages:
indexOfhas a fixed call overhead: about 12 ns, against 2.75 ns for the loop. Below a skip distance of 4–5 characters it therefore loses:I also modelled probing a few characters before calling
indexOf. Every probe length came out slower than plainindexOf.Known limit: markup where nearly every skip is 3 characters or fewer (e.g.
<b>a</b><i>b</i>repeated) gets about 5% slower. The tipping point is around 80% short calls, which looks like generated files rather than real pages. The densest page in the corpus sits at 28% short calls and still gains.Safety
indexand thrown exception. The cases cover:c > 127: the needle table only covers 0–127. Without the guard,indexOf(undefined)would silently search for the literal string"undefined". Today every caller passes a markup character, but the type does not enforce it. The guard's measured cost is nil.npm test(vitest + eslint + tsc + biome) passes on currentmaster: 210 tests.We have been running this change in production at Fasterize through a fork of 10.1.0.
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