Any plans to replace sax parser?

[JoelBrenstrum]

Hi,

I'm currently using this to give me some SVG functionality in a node server. Any future plans to replace sax with a more performant parser?

I have a few very large SVGS (>500000 paths) and the parsing takes over a minute.
Chrome is able to render these svgs in a few seconds.

saxes is a near drop in and claims to be more performant
https://github.com/lddubeau/saxes

sax-wasm claims to be very fast and has a web assembly build.
https://www.npmjs.com/package/sax-wasm

An alternative would also be to allow a custom parser to be used in place of sax.

[Fuzzyma]

Hey @JoelBrenstrum! I never bothered testing the performance. Are those alternatives drop in replacements for sax?
In that case I will happily make it pluggable (that would be the easiest and fastest solution for me). If not, it might take longer to integrate a newer / better one. According to the readme of sax-wasn, saxes is only 3x faster than sax. So that wouldn't help you that much. I guess wasm would be the goto here

Ofc PRs are welcome! I am really short on time nowadays and dont know how soon I could come up with a PR