Simple AST generation in PHP vs Go

This is a small test to check performance of solutions to generate ASTs of PHP code in Go and PHP.

Requirements

• PHP 7.4 or up.
• Composer.
• Go 1.18 or up.

Go

1. Build a binary with go build -mod=readonly.
2. Run it with ./go-php-parser <absolute path to source PHP file>.

PHP

1. Install dependencies with composer install.
2. Run php index.php <absolute path to source PHP file>