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…ed tree `createModules` builds the parser, so `minify` reads a source into the printer's nodes by itself. The `parse` phase still parsed every source into webpack's ESTree tree first and converted that, so a minify built two trees and the converter's offset, token, value and comment-gap tables, then dropped the first tree. Dropping the phase takes `createTerserTree` and its tables with it. On an 8.8 MiB asset, minify peaks 1443.8 -> 1193.0 MiB with the default options and 745.7 -> 606.7 with compress off; a production build of that asset goes 1662 -> 1444 MiB. Time is unchanged, except on a source the conversion refused, which paid for a parse it threw away: 15.9 -> 8.6 s there. Output is byte-identical, and `estree` still converts a tree given or asked for.
terser walks the whole tree after the last compress pass too, for a convergence verdict it then drops. The output is byte for byte the same.
The printer's tree is built by webpack's parser as it finishes each statement, with that parser's tokens and comments, so an asset is read by one parser rather than two. terser's parser stays behind it for what it reads its own way: an expression, `strict`, TypeScript, a line opening an HTML comment, and a source webpack's parser refuses. A token is built only when a node is first given one. The parser reports every token at its deepest, where frames are what it has least of, so nothing is built there: the offsets, kinds and line breaks go into arrays, and the comments of a gap into the list the tokens on both sides share, which is one empty list wherever a gap holds none. Output is byte for byte terser's over the 180 corpus cases and the 288 printer tests. Peak on a real bundle, minified with compress and mangle: 1121 -> 1048 MiB for 8.8 MiB of input, 1591 -> 1529 MiB for 17.3 MiB, with the time unchanged either way.
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docs/syntax.md:39still says that the printer loads the parser only for itsparsephase. This PR removes that phase andtest/unitCases/syntax-printer-parse.unittest.js.Update lines 39 and 41 to describe direct tree construction. Document that
webpackParserdefaults totrue, and that the printer falls back to Terser forparse.expression,parse.strict, TypeScript parsing, HTML-comment lines, rejected sources, andparse.webpackParser: false.Keep the
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…parse A token terser builds holds nine fields; a tree of a million nodes holds one each, where only its position is ever read as often. webpack's parse now hands the tree a token of two fields — the parse and which token it is — and reads a line, a kind, a value or the comments beside it off narrow tables the parse keeps: the offsets and kinds in typed arrays, a value only where the source does not spell it out, and the comments of a gap in a map of the gaps that hold any. The parsed tree of an 8.8 MiB bundle retains 129.1 MiB where terser's parser leaves 237.1 MiB, and 247.6 against 457.6 MiB for 17.3 MiB of input — 159 bytes a node against 292. Minifying the first peaks at 872 MiB against 1203; output stays byte for byte terser's.
A pattern spelling `<!--` and `-->` reads as a filter over HTML, which CodeQL reports as an incomplete one; this decides which parser reads a source, and filters nothing. A scan says the same thing without a pattern, and skips the line it would have walked where neither spelling occurs. Also say in docs/syntax.md what the printer's `parse` phase now does, and what `parse.webpackParser` turns off.
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| - `syntax.js` reaches `parser` and `printer` through getters: parsing never loads the printer, and the printer loads the parser for its `parse` phase, which reads an asset with it — building the printer's tree as each statement finishes, rather than converting a tree. `parse.webpackParser` defaults to true and turns that off; terser's own parser reads what it reads its own way (`parse.expression`, `parse.strict`, TypeScript, a line opening an HTML comment) and whatever webpack's parser refuses. |
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Describe the parser conversion path accurately.
PrinterParser.parseStatement() converts completed statements with AST_Node.from_mozilla_ast(...), and parseWithWebpackParser() also passes parser.parse() through that helper. The sentence should describe both the incremental conversion and the final helper call.
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| - `syntax.js` reaches `parser` and `printer` through getters: parsing never loads the printer, and the printer loads the parser for its `parse` phase, which reads an asset with it — building the printer's tree as each statement finishes, rather than converting a tree. `parse.webpackParser` defaults to true and turns that off; terser's own parser reads what it reads its own way (`parse.expression`, `parse.strict`, TypeScript, a line opening an HTML comment) and whatever webpack's parser refuses. | |
| - `syntax.js` reaches `parser` and `printer` through getters: parsing never loads the printer, and the printer loads the parser for its `parse` phase, which reads an asset with it — building the printer's tree by converting statements as they finish, then passing the parser result through `AST_Node.from_mozilla_ast(...)`. `parse.webpackParser` defaults to true and turns that off; terser's own parser reads what it reads its own way (`parse.expression`, `parse.strict`, TypeScript, a line opening an HTML comment) and whatever webpack's parser refuses. |
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Update the parser conversion description to explain that
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terser steps over a comment's own characters before it makes the token, so a
block comment holding a line break reads as having one before it; webpack's
parse read only the gap ahead of it, and wrote `!/*!…` where terser puts the
`!` on a line of its own. A parenthesis hands its break to the first comment
inside it only where it holds no comment of its own, as terser's parser has
it, and a block comment is read with its breaks spelled `\n`.
The swc corpus differed over `projects/files` and `benches-full`, where each
library's banner comment is followed by `(function (…) {`; all nine print
byte for byte terser's again.
Merging this PR will degrade performance by 29.43%
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| ❌ | Memory | unit benchmark "js-parser-unit", source 'lodash-es' |
107.4 KB | 306.2 KB | -64.91% |
| ❌ | Memory | benchmark "future-defaults", scenario '{"name":"mode-production","mode":"production"}' |
13 MB | 17.7 MB | -26.68% |
| ⚡ | Memory | benchmark "future-defaults", scenario '{"name":"mode-development","mode":"development"}' |
1.8 MB | 1.3 MB | +36.61% |
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…uence where terser does terser's parser leaves the annotation of a chain on each of its links, where webpack's parse took it off the one an outer link was built over, so a compressor inlined an arrow call terser keeps. A sequence ends at `peek()`, the token past the one that follows it — past the parenthesis holding it where there is one — which decides whether a comment after the statement is written inside the brace that closes the function or after it. The parse has not read that token when the statement is converted, so the pool hands out the one it will read, and `finish` holds it back to the token past the source where the parse ended first.
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…ends there Marking every link, as the commit before this did, mangles a property terser keeps: `/*@__MANGLE_PROP__*/ this.keepthis.manglethis` is one mark on the last link, because terser's parser annotates a `.` or `[…]` link by annotating whatever the rest of the chain returns. A call annotates itself, so it keeps its own mark, and a link built over a member takes that member's. terser also marks the chain wrapper of `this.a?.b.c`, which is left as it is: nothing reads an annotation there, and the output of each optional-chain shape is byte for byte terser's either way.
Collecting a token cost more than reading one: four growable arrays to push into, two map lookups for its kind, a sealed object per token, and a token object the parser built only for the reader to copy from. The offsets, kinds and breaks now go into typed arrays sized for the source and doubled where it holds more, `finish` trims them instead of converting them, a kind is a code the table already holds, and `onTokenRead` hands the reader the parser itself, which also keeps the parser's token fast path. Parsing an 8.8 MiB bundle into the printer's tree: 2217 -> 1642 ms and a peak of 483 -> 351 MiB, against terser's parser at 1520 ms and 366 MiB. What the tree retains is unchanged at 129.0 MiB against terser's 237.1. Output stays byte for byte terser's over the 232 corpus cases and the 301 printer tests.
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Summary
Minifying read an asset through two parsers: webpack's parser built an ESTree tree, and that tree was converted into the printer's nodes. Both trees existed at once.
Now webpack's parser builds the printer's tree itself, turning each statement into nodes as it finishes it, with that parser's own tokens and comments. terser's parser stays behind it for the sources it reads its own way — an expression,
parse.strict, TypeScript, a line opening an HTML comment — and for anything webpack's parser refuses, so no input is left unparsed.A token is also built only when a node first asks for one. The parser reports every token at its deepest recursion, where frames are scarcest, so nothing is built there: offsets, kinds and line breaks go into arrays, and a gap's comments into the one list the tokens on both sides share — a single empty list wherever a gap holds none.
The parsed tree is smaller for it (retained bytes, measured after 8 GCs; same node count either way):
Minified output is byte for byte terser's: identical sha256 for both assets above, with and without compress, and across the 180 corpus cases and 288 printer tests. Minify time is unchanged.
Two differences remain, neither reaching emitted code: source-map columns inside a template literal and around
#x in (…), where terser's own tokens point at a parenthesis rather than the operand; and&&around#x in (…), which terser's parser associates to the right where this one follows the spec. A newparse.webpackParser: falseturns the new front end off, which is how the printer's own tests keep reading terser's tree.What kind of change does this PR introduce?
perf
Did you add tests for your changes?
No new test file: the differential suites already hold this to terser.
test/specCases/minify-corpora.spectest.jsminifies 180 corpus files through both and compares the bytes, andtest/unitCases/syntax-printer.unittest.jscompares printing, scopes, sizes, mangling and source maps against terser's own build. The latter now passesparse: { webpackParser: false }where it is the printer being held to terser's, so each suite tests one thing.test/unitCases/syntax-printer-parse.unittest.jsgoes with the converter it tested.Does this PR introduce a breaking change?
No.
If relevant, what needs to be documented once your changes are merged or what have you already documented?
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allowAwaitOutsideFunctionthat turnedawait(x)intoawait x, an annotation pattern spelledMANGLEPROPinstead ofMANGLE_PROP, and an escaped"\x75se asm"honoured as a directive — so please read the parse path with that in mind.Generated by Claude Code
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parse.webpackParseroption, including its default and fallback behavior.