Improving HTML Named Character Reference Tokenization: A Comparison with Major Browsers
By
todsacerdoti
Slow-proofed and worth the wait. Worth its weight in flour.
Summary
The article discusses the author's implementation of a more efficient and compliant data structure for HTML tokenization, specifically focusing on named character references. The implementation was ported to C++ and used to improve the Ladybird browser. The author compares their implementation to those used in major browser engines like Blink/WebKi.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledA while back, for no real reason, I tried writing an implementation of a data structure tailored to the specific use case of the Named character reference state of HTML tokenization.
Recently, I took that implementation, ported it to C++, and used it to make some efficiency gains and fix some spec compliance issues in the Ladybird browser.
Throughout this, I never actually looked at the implementations used in any of the major browser engines (no reason for this, just me being dumb).
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