Is a slight refactor welcome?

[benjie]

Hey @bendrucker, thanks for your work on this project!

I've re-implemented the parse function in PostGraphile, with the following changes (roughly):

• Uses (?:...) in the wrapper-regexps to reduce the number of capture groups
• Destructures from the matches in a straightforward way
• Changes the seconds/milliseconds to be captured as one group: (\\d\\d(?:\\.\\d{1,6})?)
• Pins the regexp with ^...$ to ensure it matches the whole string
• Returns a zero-interval rather than {} if !interval. (Maybe this should return null instead?)
• Removes the parseMilliseconds function as it's no-longer necessary
• Removes the reduce loop, instead using unrolled simple assignment

Would you like me to replicate these changes in a PR to postgres-interval? I'm pretty confident I can do it in a non-breaking way (it won't be a complete copy of the above code because I'll need to add milliseconds back in, at least).

The result of this change would be:

• slightly better performance
• slightly reduced memory usage
• more linear code

If this is not of interest; feel free to close this issue 👍

[bendrucker]

Yes, this sounds good! This code is pretty old. Would like to see some benchmarks around any perf oriented changes but certainly anything you think improves readability is more than welcome.