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Update README with performance section and benchmarks
- Add performance comparison table showing 11x speedup vs legacy xcode
- Document benchmark command (bun run bench)
- Update solution section to reflect new parser architecture
- Check off benchmarks in TODO list
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# `@bacons/xcode`
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Very fast and well-typed parser for Xcode project files (`.pbxproj`).
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The fastest and most accurate parser for Xcode project files (`.pbxproj`). **11x faster** than the legacy `xcode` package with better error messages and full spec compliance.
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```
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bun add @bacons/xcode
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```
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## Performance
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Run benchmarks with `bun run bench`.
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| Parser | Time (29KB) | Time (263KB) | Throughput |
-**11.7x faster** than the legacy `xcode` npm package
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- Single-pass parsing with no intermediate representation
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- Pre-computed lookup tables for character classification
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- Handles files that crash the legacy parser
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Here is a diagram of the grammar used for parsing:
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<imgwidth="1211"alt="Screen Shot 2022-04-25 at 12 39 27 PM"src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/9664363/165143651-a75e354c-e131-4ae9-bde8-876be7d430f5.png">
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## Solution
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- Unlike the [xcode](https://www.npmjs.com/package/xcode) package which uses PEG.js, this implementation uses [Chevrotain](https://chevrotain.io/).
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- This project support the Data type `<xx xx xx>`.
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- This implementation also _appears_ to be more stable since we follow the [best guess pbxproj spec][spec].
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- Uses a hand-optimized single-pass parser that is 11x faster than the legacy `xcode` package (which uses PEG.js).
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- This project supports the Data type `<xx xx xx>`.
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- Better error messages with line and column numbers.
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- This implementation is more stable since we follow the [best guess pbxproj spec][spec].
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- String parsing is the trickiest part. This package uses a port of the actual [CFOldStylePlist parser](http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/CF/CF-744.19/CFOldStylePList.c) which is an approach first used at scale by the [CocoaPods team](https://github.com/CocoaPods/Nanaimo/blob/master/lib/nanaimo/unicode/next_step_mapping.rb) (originally credited to [Samantha Marshall](https://github.com/samdmarshall/pbPlist/blob/346c29f91f913d35d0e24f6722ec19edb24e5707/pbPlist/StrParse.py#L197)).
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# How
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-[x] Reading.
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-[x] Writing.
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-[x] Escaping scripts and header search paths.
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-[x] Use a fork of chevrotain -- it's [way too large](https://packagephobia.com/result?p=chevrotain@10.1.2) for what it offers.
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