update with link to discussion about Esprima vs. UglifyJS speed

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Mihai Bazon
2012-08-29 11:18:05 +03:00
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#### A word about Esprima
**UPDATE**: A
[discussion in my commit](https://github.com/mishoo/UglifyJS2/commit/ce8e8d57c0d346dba9527b7a11b03364ce9ad1bb#commitcomment-1771586)
suggests that Esprima is not as slow as I thought even when requesting
location information. YMMV. In any case, we're going to keep the
battle-tested parser in UglifyJS.
[Esprima](http://esprima.org/) is a really nice JavaScript parser. It
supports EcmaScript 5.1 and it claims to be “up to 3x faster than UglifyJS's
parse-js”. I thought that's quite cool and I considered using Esprima in