different strategy for tokenizing keywords

lib/std/zig/tokenizer.zig

@@ -13,14 +13,11 @@ pub const Token = struct {
     pub const Keyword = struct {
         bytes: []const u8,
         id: Id,
-        hash: u32,
 
         fn init(bytes: []const u8, id: Id) Keyword {
-            @setEvalBranchQuota(2000);
             return .{
                 .bytes = bytes,
                 .id = id,
-                .hash = std.hash_map.hashString(bytes),
             };
         }
     };
@@ -79,15 +76,49 @@ pub const Token = struct {
         Keyword.init("while", .Keyword_while),
     };
 
-    // TODO perfect hash at comptime
     pub fn getKeyword(bytes: []const u8) ?Id {
-        var hash = std.hash_map.hashString(bytes);
-        for (keywords) |kw| {
-            if (kw.hash == hash and mem.eql(u8, kw.bytes, bytes)) {
-                return kw.id;
+        const precomputed = comptime blk: {
+            @setEvalBranchQuota(2000);
+            var sorted_keywords = keywords;
+            const lenAsc = (struct {
+                fn lenAsc(a: Keyword, b: Keyword) bool {
+                    return a.bytes.len < b.bytes.len;
+                }
+            }).lenAsc;
+            std.sort.sort(Keyword, &sorted_keywords, lenAsc);
+            const min_len = sorted_keywords[0].bytes.len;
+            const max_len = sorted_keywords[sorted_keywords.len - 1].bytes.len;
+            var len_indexes: [max_len + 1]usize = undefined;
+            var len: usize = 0;
+            var kw_i: usize = 0;
+            while (len <= max_len) : (len += 1) {
+                // find the first keyword len == len
+                while (len > sorted_keywords[kw_i].bytes.len) {
+                    kw_i += 1;
+                }
+                len_indexes[len] = kw_i;
             }
+            break :blk .{
+                .min_len = min_len,
+                .max_len = max_len,
+                .sorted_keywords = sorted_keywords,
+                .len_indexes = len_indexes,
+            };
+        };
+        if (bytes.len < precomputed.min_len or bytes.len > precomputed.max_len)
+            return null;
+
+        var i = precomputed.len_indexes[bytes.len];
+        while (true) {
+            const kw = precomputed.sorted_keywords[i];
+            if (kw.bytes.len != bytes.len)
+                return null;
+            if (mem.eql(u8, kw.bytes, bytes))
+                return kw.id;
+            i += 1;
+            if (i >= precomputed.sorted_keywords.len)
+                return null;
         }
-        return null;
     }
 
     pub const Id = enum {