diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 4fe54bce3..d9f881c3e 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -441,12 +441,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "syn",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "daachorse"
-version = "1.0.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "63b7ef7a4be509357f4804d0a22e830daddb48f19fd604e4ad32ddce04a94c36"
-
 [[package]]
 name = "dashmap"
 version = "5.5.3"
@@ -1541,10 +1535,8 @@ dependencies = [
  "base64",
  "bitflags 2.6.0",
  "cow-utils",
- "daachorse",
  "insta",
  "nonmax",
- "once_cell",
  "oxc_allocator",
  "oxc_ast",
  "oxc_index",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 51a27aa6e..281a8d654 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -136,7 +136,6 @@ console_error_panic_hook = "0.1.7"
 convert_case = "0.6.0"
 cow-utils = "0.1.3"
 criterion2 = { version = "1.1.1", default-features = false }
-daachorse = { version = "1.0.0" }
 dashmap = "6.1.0"
 encoding_rs = "0.8.34"
 encoding_rs_io = "0.1.7"
diff --git a/crates/oxc_codegen/Cargo.toml b/crates/oxc_codegen/Cargo.toml
index 7ccae5885..206da14fc 100644
--- a/crates/oxc_codegen/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/oxc_codegen/Cargo.toml
@@ -31,9 +31,7 @@ oxc_syntax = { workspace = true, features = ["to_js_string"] }
 assert-unchecked = { workspace = true }
 bitflags = { workspace = true }
 cow-utils = { workspace = true }
-daachorse = { workspace = true }
 nonmax = { workspace = true }
-once_cell = { workspace = true }
 rustc-hash = { workspace = true }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
diff --git a/crates/oxc_codegen/src/comment.rs b/crates/oxc_codegen/src/comment.rs
index d204c8dd8..1069bb6b5 100644
--- a/crates/oxc_codegen/src/comment.rs
+++ b/crates/oxc_codegen/src/comment.rs
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-use daachorse::DoubleArrayAhoCorasick;
-use once_cell::sync::Lazy;
 use rustc_hash::FxHashMap;
 
 use oxc_ast::{Comment, CommentKind};
@@ -7,12 +5,6 @@ use oxc_syntax::identifier::is_line_terminator;
 
 use crate::{Codegen, LegalComment};
 
-static ANNOTATION_MATCHER: Lazy<DoubleArrayAhoCorasick<usize>> = Lazy::new(|| {
-    let patterns = vec!["#__NO_SIDE_EFFECTS__", "@__NO_SIDE_EFFECTS__", "@__PURE__", "#__PURE__"];
-
-    DoubleArrayAhoCorasick::new(patterns).unwrap()
-});
-
 pub(crate) type CommentsMap = FxHashMap</* attached_to */ u32, Vec<Comment>>;
 
 impl<'a> Codegen<'a> {
@@ -36,17 +28,25 @@ impl<'a> Codegen<'a> {
     }
 
     pub(crate) fn has_non_annotation_comment(&self, start: u32) -> bool {
-        if !self.options.print_annotation_comments() {
-            return self.has_comment(start);
+        if self.options.print_annotation_comments() {
+            self.comments.get(&start).is_some_and(|comments| {
+                comments.iter().any(|comment| !self.is_annotation_comment(comment))
+            })
+        } else {
+            self.has_comment(start)
         }
-        self.comments.get(&start).is_some_and(|comments| {
-            comments.iter().any(|comment| !self.is_annotation_comment(comment))
-        })
     }
 
+    /// `#__PURE__` Notation Specification
+    ///
+    /// <https://github.com/javascript-compiler-hints/compiler-notations-spec/blob/main/pure-notation-spec.md>
     fn is_annotation_comment(&self, comment: &Comment) -> bool {
-        let comment_content = comment.span.source_text(self.source_text);
-        ANNOTATION_MATCHER.find_iter(comment_content).count() != 0
+        let s = comment.span.source_text(self.source_text).trim_start();
+        if let Some(s) = s.strip_prefix(['@', '#']) {
+            s.starts_with("__PURE__") || s.starts_with("__NO_SIDE_EFFECTS__")
+        } else {
+            false
+        }
     }
 
     /// Whether to keep leading comments.
diff --git a/crates/oxc_codegen/src/gen.rs b/crates/oxc_codegen/src/gen.rs
index e9d60de5a..a7c81cc86 100644
--- a/crates/oxc_codegen/src/gen.rs
+++ b/crates/oxc_codegen/src/gen.rs
@@ -1329,7 +1329,7 @@ impl<'a> GenExpr for CallExpression<'a> {
     fn gen_expr(&self, p: &mut Codegen, precedence: Precedence, ctx: Context) {
         let is_export_default = p.start_of_default_export == p.code_len();
         let mut wrap = precedence >= Precedence::New || ctx.intersects(Context::FORBID_CALL);
-        if p.has_annotation_comment(self.span.start) && precedence >= Precedence::Postfix {
+        if precedence >= Precedence::Postfix && p.has_annotation_comment(self.span.start) {
             wrap = true;
         }
 
@@ -2040,7 +2040,7 @@ impl<'a> GenExpr for ChainExpression<'a> {
 impl<'a> GenExpr for NewExpression<'a> {
     fn gen_expr(&self, p: &mut Codegen, precedence: Precedence, ctx: Context) {
         let mut wrap = precedence >= self.precedence();
-        if p.has_annotation_comment(self.span.start) && precedence >= Precedence::Postfix {
+        if precedence >= Precedence::Postfix && p.has_annotation_comment(self.span.start) {
             wrap = true;
         }
         p.wrap(wrap, |p| {