Update benchmarks

combinator.go

@@ -39,11 +39,11 @@ func Any(parsers ...Parserish) Parser {
 	predictor := [255]int{}
 
 	return NewParser("Any()", func(ps *State, node *Result) {
+		ps.WS(ps)
 		if ps.Pos >= len(ps.Input) {
 			ps.ErrorHere("!EOF")
 			return
 		}
-		longestError := Error{}
 		startpos := ps.Pos
 		predictorChar := ps.Input[startpos]
 		predicted := predictor[predictorChar]
@@ -53,9 +53,7 @@ func Any(parsers ...Parserish) Parser {
 			return
 		}
 
-		if ps.Error.pos >= longestError.pos {
+		longestError := ps.Error
-			longestError = ps.Error
-		}
 		if ps.Cut <= startpos {
 			ps.Recover()
 		} else {
@@ -159,7 +157,6 @@ func Bind(parser Parserish, val interface{}) Parser {
 			return
 		}
 		node.Result = val
-		return
 	}
 }
 

debugon.go

@@ -49,7 +49,11 @@ func (dp *debugParser) logf(ps *State, result *Result, format string, args ...in
 	if ps.Errored() {
 		buf.WriteString(fmt.Sprintf(" did not find %s", ps.Error.expected))
 	} else if result != nil {
-		buf.WriteString(fmt.Sprintf(" found %s", result.String()))
+		resultStr := strconv.Quote(result.String())
+		if len(resultStr) > 20 {
+			resultStr = resultStr[0:20]
+		}
+		buf.WriteString(fmt.Sprintf(" found %s", resultStr))
 	}
 	buf.WriteRune('\n')
 	return buf.String()

json/json_test.go

@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ import (
 	stdlibJson "encoding/json"
 	"testing"
 
+	"os"
+
 	parsecJson "github.com/prataprc/goparsec/json"
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
 	"github.com/vektah/goparsify"
@@ -53,6 +55,7 @@ func BenchmarkUnmarshalParsec(b *testing.B) {
 }
 
 func BenchmarkUnmarshalParsify(b *testing.B) {
+	goparsify.EnableLogging(os.Stdout)
 	for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
 		_, err := Unmarshal(benchmarkString)
 		require.NoError(b, err)

readme.md

@@ -9,16 +9,18 @@ Run(parser, input, ASCIIWhitespace)
 ```
 
 ### benchmarks
-I dont have many benchmarks set up yet, but the json parser keeps up with the stdlib for raw speed:
+I dont have many benchmarks set up yet, but the json parser is 50% faster than the stdlib.
 ```
-$ go test -bench=. -benchtime=2s -benchmem ./json
+$ go test -bench=. -benchmem -benchtime=5s ./json -run=none
-BenchmarkUnmarshalParsec-8         50000             66012 ns/op           50462 B/op       1318 allocs/op
+BenchmarkUnmarshalParsec-8        100000             65682 ns/op           50464 B/op       1318 allocs/op
-BenchmarkUnmarshalParsify-8       100000             46713 ns/op           44543 B/op        332 allocs/op
+BenchmarkUnmarshalParsify-8       200000             32656 ns/op           42094 B/op        220 allocs/op
-BenchmarkUnmarshalStdlib-8        100000             46967 ns/op           13952 B/op        262 allocs/op
+BenchmarkUnmarshalStdlib-8        200000             48023 ns/op           13952 B/op        262 allocs/op
 PASS
-ok      github.com/vektah/goparsify/json        14.424s
+ok      github.com/vektah/goparsify/json        24.314s
 ```
 
+Most of the remaining small allocs are from putting things in `interface{}` and are pretty unavoidable. https://www.darkcoding.net/software/go-the-price-of-interface/ is a good read.
+
 ### debugging parsers
 
 When a parser isnt working as you intended you can build with debugging and enable logging to get a detailed log of exactly what the parser is doing.

result.go

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import (
 	"strings"
 )
 
+// TrashResult is used in places where the result isnt wanted, but something needs to be passed in to satisfy the interface.
 var TrashResult = &Result{}
 
 // Result is the output of a parser. Usually only one of its fields will be set and should be though of
@@ -16,6 +17,7 @@ type Result struct {
 	Result interface{}
 }
 
+// String stringifies a node. This is only called from debug code.
 func (r Result) String() string {
 	if r.Result != nil {
 		if rs, ok := r.Result.(fmt.Stringer); ok {

state.go

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 package goparsify
 
 import (
+	"strconv"
 	"unicode"
 	"unicode/utf8"
 )
@@ -72,11 +73,14 @@ func (s *State) Preview(x int) string {
 	if s.Pos >= len(s.Input) {
 		return ""
 	}
-	if len(s.Input)-s.Pos >= x {
+
-		return s.Input[s.Pos : s.Pos+x]
+	quoted := strconv.Quote(s.Get())
+	quoted = quoted[1 : len(quoted)-1]
+	if len(quoted) >= x {
+		return quoted[0:x]
 	}
 
-	return s.Input[s.Pos:]
+	return quoted
 }
 
 // ErrorHere raises an error at the current position.