profile to find performance weak points

[michaelficarra]

My guess is we'll find the performance issues in the fixed point evaluation of the compiler. node-inspector will be useful here.

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[joliss]

Right now CoffeeScriptRedux is a good bit slower than the original CoffeeScript. E.g. compiling src/compiler.coffee takes 3.6 sec for redux, but 1.4 sec for the original compiler. FYI, the original compiler has some unfortunate quadratic behavior when you catenate files, which redux doesn't seem to suffer from.