Investigate performance #2
Description
So I took the html parser benchmark, and tweaked it to work in a browser. The repo is here: http://github.com/latentflip/html-parser-bench and it's running at http://latentflip.com/html-parser-bench. It has four test pages, which in the browser I'm only running one at a time since they take a while.
Some interesting results, first off, in all my desktop browsers, seems htmlparser2 to be faster, somewhere between marginally and 2x faster depending on the test/when I run it, but on my phone html-parse-stringify is marginally faster.
That repo will also dump out the bundled/minified/gzipped sizes:
2.7K html-parse-stringify
1.2K html-parse-stringify.gz
145K htmlparser2
38K htmlparser2.gz
260K parse5
42K parse5.gz
So, anyway, might be useful for getting a handle on perf/size status. It seems like we should be able to beat htmlparser2 given the tradeoffs we're making.