From 6569e66bf87e5b170ac01f52b32e66639d09b899 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mihai Bazon Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 11:18:05 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] update with link to discussion about Esprima vs. UglifyJS speed --- README.md | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 77b7df66..40f925fa 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -83,6 +83,12 @@ test file). #### A word about Esprima +**UPDATE**: A +[discussion in my commit](https://github.com/mishoo/UglifyJS2/commit/ce8e8d57c0d346dba9527b7a11b03364ce9ad1bb#commitcomment-1771586) +suggests that Esprima is not as slow as I thought even when requesting +location information. YMMV. In any case, we're going to keep the +battle-tested parser in UglifyJS. + [Esprima](http://esprima.org/) is a really nice JavaScript parser. It supports EcmaScript 5.1 and it claims to be “up to 3x faster than UglifyJS's parse-js”. I thought that's quite cool and I considered using Esprima in -- 2.34.1