We rewrote our Rust WASM Parser in TypeScript – and it got 3x Faster
Summary
OpenUI explains rewriting a Rust WASM parser in TypeScript and achieving about a threefold speedup. The piece details a six-stage parsing pipeline, the WASM-JS boundary overhead, and experiments comparing JSON round-trips with direct object returns, showing boundary costs dominate; it then shows how removing the boundary and adding incremental caching yields significant per-call and streaming performance gains.