Porting SQLite’s parser to JavaScript made it faster than JS SQL parsers

A native JavaScript port of SQLite’s parser reportedly beats existing JS and WASM SQL parsers by 2.5x to 200x depending on the comparison

i ported SQLite's parser to JavaScript and it turned out faster than every other JS SQL parser i tested: 2.5x faster vs liteparser (wasm) 6x faster vs guanmingchiu/sqlparser-ts (wasm) 10x faster vs node-sql-parser 100x faster vs pgsql-ast-

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