html5ever is much slower than MyHTML
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Description
https://lexborisov.github.io/benchmark-html-persers/ shows html5ever performing very badly against MyHTML, which furthermore has fewer bugs and supports html5ever supports document.write()document.write() in modern versions (thanks @jdm).
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Research direction
Start by reproducing the comparison from the linked benchmark page and inspect how html5ever performs against MyHTML. Done means identifying a concrete performance gap and demonstrating an improvement with the benchmark, while preserving the parser behavior described in the issue.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- performance, web-dev
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100