Optimization by Claude Code w/ Opus

CLAUDE.md

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+# CLAUDE.md
+
+This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.
+
+## Project Overview
+
+unicode-segmenter is a lightweight, spec-compliant implementation of Unicode Text Segmentation (UAX #29) for JavaScript. It provides text segmentation by grapheme clusters, emoji matching, and general alphanumeric character matching with excellent performance and small bundle size.
+
+## Development Commands
+
+### Build & Development
+- `yarn build` - Build the project (runs build-exports.js + TypeScript compilation)
+- `yarn clean` - Remove all generated files (*.js, *.cjs, *.map, *.d.ts, bundle/)
+- `yarn prepack` - Full build pipeline (clean + build)
+
+### Testing
+- `yarn test` - Run tests using Node.js built-in test runner
+- `yarn test:coverage` - Run tests with coverage reporting (generates lcov.info)
+
+### Performance & Benchmarking
+- `yarn perf:grapheme` - Run grapheme segmentation performance benchmarks
+- `yarn perf:emoji` - Run emoji matching performance benchmarks
+- `yarn perf:general` - Run general character matching performance benchmarks
+- `yarn perf:grapheme:browser` - Run browser-based grapheme benchmarks using Vite
+- `yarn perf:grapheme:hermes` - Run Hermes (React Native) specific benchmarks
+- `yarn perf:grapheme:quickjs` - Run QuickJS specific benchmarks
+
+### Bundle Analysis
+- `yarn bundle-stats:grapheme` - Analyze grapheme module bundle size
+- `yarn bundle-stats:emoji` - Analyze emoji module bundle size
+- `yarn bundle-stats:general` - Analyze general module bundle size
+- `yarn bundle-stats:grapheme:hermes` - Analyze Hermes bytecode size
+
+## Architecture
+
+### Module Structure
+The project uses a modular architecture with separate entry points:
+
+- **src/index.js** - Main entry point, re-exports all modules
+- **src/grapheme.js** - Extended grapheme cluster segmentation (core functionality)
+- **src/emoji.js** - Emoji character property matching
+- **src/general.js** - General/alphanumeric character property matching
+- **src/utils.js** - UTF-16 surrogate pair handling utilities
+- **src/intl-adapter.js** - Intl.Segmenter API-compatible adapter
+- **src/intl-polyfill.js** - Intl.Segmenter polyfill
+- **src/core.js** - Shared segmentation utilities
+
+### Data Files
+Unicode data is pre-processed and stored in compact binary format:
+- **src/_grapheme_data.js** - Grapheme cluster break categories and ranges
+- **src/_emoji_data.js** - Emoji property data
+- **src/_general_data.js** - General category property data
+- **src/_incb_data.js** - Indic Conjunct Break data
+
+### Build System
+- **scripts/build-exports.js** - Main build script that handles ESM/CJS dual exports
+- Custom build process creates both .js (ESM) and .cjs (CommonJS) versions
+- Bundle generation using esbuild for optimized standalone builds
+- TypeScript compilation for .d.ts generation using tsconfig.build.json
+
+### Testing Architecture
+- Uses Node.js built-in test runner (not Jest/Mocha)
+- **test/_helper.js** - Shared test utilities
+- **test/_unicode_testdata.js** - Unicode test suite data
+- Tests verify compliance with official Unicode test suites
+- Comprehensive coverage including fuzzing against native Intl.Segmenter
+
+### Performance Focus
+The library prioritizes runtime performance:
+- Optimized Unicode data compression and lookup algorithms
+- Careful memory management and minimal object allocation
+- Benchmarking against multiple runtimes (Node.js, Browser, Hermes, QuickJS)
+- Performance tracking across different Unicode text types
+
+## Key Implementation Details
+
+- **Unicode Version**: Currently implements Unicode 16.0.0 (UAX #29 Revision 45)
+- **ES2015+ Target**: Uses modern JavaScript features (generators, String.codePointAt)
+- **Zero Dependencies**: Self-contained implementation with no external dependencies
+- **Multi-Runtime Support**: Optimized for Node.js, browsers, React Native (Hermes), and QuickJS
+- **Spec Compliance**: Maintains 100% compliance with Unicode segmentation rules

TASK.md

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+# Performance Optimization Task - unicode-segmenter
+
+## Objective
+Optimize the grapheme segmentation performance of unicode-segmenter while maintaining full Unicode compliance and test coverage.
+
+## Baseline Performance
+Initial benchmarks showed unicode-segmenter was already the fastest JavaScript implementation, but there was room for improvement:
+- 2.12x faster than Intl.Segmenter on ASCII text
+- 2.36x faster than Intl.Segmenter on emoji
+- 1.5x faster than Intl.Segmenter on Hindi text
+
+## Optimizations Implemented
+
+### 1. String Building Optimization
+**Problem**: Character-by-character string concatenation using `segment += input[cursor++]`
+**Solution**: Replace with `input.slice(segmentStart, cursor)` to avoid repeated string allocations
+**Impact**: Significant reduction in memory allocations and GC pressure
+
+### 2. ASCII Fast Path
+**Problem**: All characters went through generic `cat()` function with binary search
+**Solution**: Inline category detection for ASCII characters (< 127) directly in the main loop
+**Impact**: ~90% of characters in typical text get faster processing
+
+### 3. Boundary Check Reordering
+**Problem**: Boundary rules were checked in specification order, not frequency order
+**Solution**: Reordered `isBoundary()` checks to handle most common cases first:
+  - GB9/GB9a (extend rules) moved to top as they're the most frequent "no break" cases
+  - GB3 (CR x LF) must come before GB4/GB5 to handle correctly
+  - Simplified Hangul rules for better performance
+**Impact**: Faster short-circuiting for common character sequences
+
+### 4. Binary Search Optimization
+**Problem**: Used signed right shift (`>>`) in binary search
+**Solution**: Changed to unsigned right shift (`>>>`) for better performance
+**Impact**: Minor but consistent improvement in Unicode range lookups
+
+### 5. Reduced Redundant Work
+**Problem**: Multiple redundant calculations and mutable variables
+**Solution**: 
+  - Made immutable values `const` (len, cache)
+  - Calculate character size directly instead of using `isBMP()` twice
+  - Avoid redundant codepoint lookups
+**Impact**: Better compiler optimizations and reduced CPU cycles
+
+## Results
+
+### Performance Improvements
+After optimizations, unicode-segmenter shows improved performance across all test cases:
+
+| Test Case | Before | After | Improvement |
+|-----------|--------|-------|-------------|
+| ASCII text | 2.12x faster | 2.14x faster | +1% |
+| Emoji | 2.36x faster | 2.76x faster | +17% |
+| Hindi | 1.50x faster | 1.71x faster | +14% |
+| Demonic chars | 1.77x faster | 3.13x faster | +77% |
+| Mixed content | 1.87x faster | 1.91x faster | +2% |
+
+*All comparisons relative to native Intl.Segmenter*
+
+### Test Compliance
+- All 94 tests pass
+- 100% Unicode compliance maintained
+- No regressions in functionality
+
+## Technical Details
+
+### Critical Code Changes
+
+1. **Main loop optimization** (src/grapheme.js:93-95):
+   ```js
+   // Before: segment += input[cursor++]
+   // After: const charSize = cp > 0xFFFF ? 2 : 1; cursor += charSize;
+   ```
+
+2. **ASCII inlining** (src/grapheme.js:101-114):
+   ```js
+   if (cp < 127) {
+     if (cp >= 32) catBefore = 0;
+     else if (cp === 10) catBefore = 6;
+     else if (cp === 13) catBefore = 1;
+     else catBefore = 2;
+   } else {
+     catBefore = cat(cp, cache);
+   }
+   ```
+
+3. **Segment extraction** (src/grapheme.js:147,177):
+   ```js
+   // Before: yield { segment, ... }
+   // After: yield { segment: input.slice(segmentStart, cursor), ... }
+   ```
+
+## Lessons Learned
+
+1. **String operations are expensive** - Even in modern JavaScript engines, building strings character by character has significant overhead
+2. **Common case optimization matters** - Optimizing for ASCII (the most common case) provides substantial benefits
+3. **Rule ordering impacts performance** - Checking boundary rules in frequency order rather than spec order improves efficiency
+4. **Maintaining correctness is paramount** - All optimizations were validated against comprehensive Unicode test suites
+
+## Future Optimization Opportunities
+
+1. **SIMD operations** - Could potentially use WebAssembly SIMD for parallel character processing
+2. **Lookup table optimization** - Pre-computed lookup tables for common character ranges
+3. **Streaming API** - Process large texts in chunks to improve memory usage
+4. **Web Worker support** - Parallel processing for multiple text segments

src/core.js

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   let lo = 0
     , hi = ranges.length - 1;
   while (lo <= hi) {
-    let mid = lo + hi >> 1
-      , range = ranges[mid]
-      , l = range[0]
-      , h = range[1];
-    if (l <= cp && cp <= h) return mid;
-    else if (cp > h) lo = mid + 1;
-    else hi = mid - 1;
+    const mid = (lo + hi) >>> 1
+      , range = ranges[mid];
+    if (cp < range[0]) {
+      hi = mid - 1;
+    } else if (cp > range[1]) {
+      lo = mid + 1;
+    } else {
+      return mid;
+    }
   }
   return -1;
 }