Implementing a performant URL parser from scratch

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Abstract

Performance plays and important role in engineering. After looking for contributing to Node.js, implementing a very fast specification compliant URL state machine and a parser for Node.js became the project which pushes the boundaries of both javascript user-land and node.js.

I’ve been working on implementing the URL parser, currently written in C++, in Rust and WebAssembly. I want to share my experience working on it, and benchmarking with the native implementation. The first talk will cover implementing it in Rust and WebAssembly, which I wrote it on https://www.yagiz.co/implementing-node-js-url-parser-in-webassembly-with-rust/, and then I’ll focus on implementing it using JavaScript and releasing it under github.com/anonrig/url-js.