URL in WebAssembly and Rust

This is a small experiment to replace URL and URLSearchParams using WebAssembly and Rust. For all missing functionality and the to-do list of this package follow this link.

Goals

• Increase the performance of URL and URLSearchParams
• Replace internal implementation of Node.js for URL and URLSearchParams

Installation

Easiest way to test this package is to install it from NPM. Currently, every change made to the main branch is released under the alpha tag.

npm i --save url-wasm@alpha

Benchmarks

Referencing url-wasm-0.1.1-ci-1883989259.0 release

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  URL vs. Rust URL
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Platform info:
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   Darwin 21.2.0 arm64
   Node.JS: 17.5.0
   V8: 9.6.180.15-node.13
   CPU: Apple M1 × 8
   Memory: 16 GB

Suite: URL
✔ URL               1,073,591 rps
✔ Rust::URL           819,374 rps

   URL                  0%      (1,073,591 rps)   (avg: 931ns)
   Rust::URL       -23.68%        (819,374 rps)   (avg: 1μs)
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Suite: URLSearchParams.set
✔ URLSearchParams.set                  29,112 rps
✔ Rust::URLSearchParams.set             3,902 rps

   URLSearchParams.set                  0%         (29,112 rps)   (avg: 34μs)
   Rust::URLSearchParams.set        -86.6%          (3,902 rps)   (avg: 256μs)
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Suite: URLSearchParams.append
✔ URLSearchParams.append                  94,838 rps
✔ Rust::URLSearchParams.append             3,792 rps

   URLSearchParams.append                  0%         (94,838 rps)   (avg: 10μs)
   Rust::URLSearchParams.append          -96%          (3,792 rps)   (avg: 263μs)
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