Engineering High-Performance Parsers with Data-Oriented Design
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Data-oriented design for parsers is highly technical and relevant.
Summary
Yuku, a JavaScript/TypeScript parser written in Zig, achieves 3–10x speedups over npm alternatives by replacing pointer-based AST trees with flat arrays and integer indices. Using Zig's `MultiArrayList` for struct-of-arrays layout and a single arena allocator, it eliminates per-node allocation and pointer chasing, resulting in cache-friendly linear scans and one deallocation call per file.