From 36669393e77b8322f387ba0b344fae860dd53717 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Boshen <boshenc@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2026 16:30:20 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] perf(parser): specialize identifier reference parsing
 (#28303)
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Inline identifier parsing and bypass async/contextual disambiguation for
ordinary identifiers.

Native parse time versus parent: 2.7% lower with fresh arenas, 2.3%
lower with reuse (geometric mean, 12 files, arm64 macOS; 3 rounds × 100
samples).

Validated existing Rust/Node suites, parser/ESTree/token conformance,
allocation snapshots, and x86 compilation. AI-assisted implementation.

Depends on #28302.
---
 crates/oxc_parser/src/js/expression.rs | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/crates/oxc_parser/src/js/expression.rs b/crates/oxc_parser/src/js/expression.rs
index 30b1c21521..a2ef8afef4 100644
--- a/crates/oxc_parser/src/js/expression.rs
+++ b/crates/oxc_parser/src/js/expression.rs
@@ -263,6 +263,10 @@ impl<'a, C: Config> ParserImpl<'a, C> {
     ///     `TemplateLiteral`[?Yield, ?Await, ~Tagged]
     ///     `CoverParenthesizedExpressionAndArrowParameterList`[?Yield, ?Await]
     fn parse_primary_expression(&mut self) -> Expression<'a> {
+        // Ordinary identifiers do not need async-function or contextual-keyword disambiguation.
+        if self.at(Kind::Ident) {
+            return self.parse_identifier_expression();
+        }
         // FunctionExpression, GeneratorExpression
         // AsyncFunctionExpression, AsyncGeneratorExpression
         if self.at_function_with_async() {