Move post-transform checker into a `tasks` crate. It doesn't feel like it belongs in `oxc_semantic`. It also feels like too heavy a lump of code to put in `tasks/common`.
This PR makes 2 changes to improve the existing API that are not very useful.
- Remove `(Literal)Parser` and `FlagsParser` and their ASTs
- Add `with_flags(flags_text)` helper to `ParserOptions`
Here are the details.
> Remove `(Literal)Parser` and `FlagsParser` and their ASTs
Previously, the `oxc_regular_expression` crate exposed 3 parsers.
- `(Literal)Parser`: assumes `/pattern/flags` format
- `PatternParser`: assumes `pattern` part only
- `FlagsParser`: assumes `flags` part only
However, it turns out that in actual usecases, only the `PatternParser` is actually sufficient, as the pattern and flags are validated and sliced in advance on the `oxc_parser` side.
The current usecase for `(Literal)Parser` is mostly for internal testing.
There were also some misuses of `(Literal)Parser` that restore `format!("/{pattern}/{flags}")` back and use `(Literal)Parser`.
Therefore, only `PatternParser` is now published, and unnecessary ASTs have been removed.
(This also obsoletes #5592 .)
> Added `with_flags(flags_text)` helper to `ParserOptions`
Strictly speaking, there was a subtle difference between the "flag" strings that users were aware of and the "mode" recognised by the parser.
Therefore, it was a common mistake to forget to enable `unicode_mode` when using the `v` flag.
With this helper, crate users no longer need to distinguish between flags and modes.
This also removes the confusing `SourceType::always_strict` field.
I hacked it with `SourceType::always_strict`, but what we actually want is add `'use strict'`.
This is technically a breaking change but I don't expect anyone using this outside of oxc.
The snapshot has a large diff due to every single line shifting by 1 row :-/
Pure refactor of transform checker. Store all scope data in `PostTransformChecker` so it doesn't need to be passed around. `SemanticData` contains a full set of all semantic data for semantic pass, so we have 2 instances of it for 1. after transform and 2. rebuilt semantic.
Transformer checker use `SemanticIds` to store collected IDs. `SemanticIds` only contains the IDs, without the `Vec` of errors which is only used temporarily.
closes https://github.com/oxc-project/oxc/issues/4790
@overlookmotel enjoy ... take a look at the snapshots and probably nothing else.
The snapshots are minimal right now, but it's already showing symbols from import specifiers are not being removed. We can iterate on the snapshot representation to aid debugging later.
I'll extend this to `transformer_conformance` and `oxc-monitor` in an up coming PR.
After studying google closure compiler, I'm leaning towards a multi-ast-pass infrastructure for the minifier.
This is one of the few places where we are going to trade maintainability over performance, given the goal of the minifier is compression size not performance.
All of the terminologies and separation of concerns are aligned with google closure compiler.
Infrastructure of `terser` and `esbuild` are not suitable for us to study nor pursuit. Their code are so tightly coupled - I failed to comprehend any of them every time I try to walk through a piece of optmization. Google closure compiler despite being written in Java, it's actually the most readable minifier out there.
To improve performance between ast passes, I envision a change detection system over a portion of the code.
The benchmark will demonstrate the performance regression of running 5 ast passes instead of 2.
To complete this PR, I need to figure out "fix-point" and order of these ast passes.
