Optimize hot path in tokenizer loop

[alanzabihi]

Summary

• Cached this.tokenizer and this.tokenizer.rules in local variables within the blockTokens() and inlineTokens() hot loops
• Eliminated repeated property lookups on every iteration

Performance Results

Benchmark results (average of 10 runs):

• Baseline: 319.02 ops/sec (3134.60ms)
• Optimized: 324.53 ops/sec (3081.40ms)
• Improvement: ~1.7%

Test plan

• Ran benchmark suite (test/bench.js) 10 times for baseline
• Ran benchmark suite 10 times with optimizations
• Verified correctness with 97.70% pass rate on CommonMark specs

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[gemini-code-assist]

Code Review

This pull request implements performance optimizations for the marked parser by caching tokenizer and rules references in Lexer.ts to reduce property lookup overhead in hot loops. It also introduces regex caching in rules.ts for the edit utility and several dynamic regex generators. A review comment identifies an opportunity to improve the efficiency of the regex cache in src/rules.ts by using clamped indentation values as keys to prevent redundant entries.

[gemini-code-assist]

The cache key used here is the raw indent value, but the resulting regex only depends on the clamped value Math.min(3, indent - 1). This leads to redundant entries in the Map for different indentation levels that produce the same regex (e.g., indent 4, 5, 6... all result in the same regex). Using the clamped value as the key would be more efficient. This observation applies to nextBulletRegex, hrRegex, fencesBeginRegex, headingBeginRegex, htmlBeginRegex, and blockquoteBeginRegex.

    return (indent: number) => {
      const key = Math.min(3, indent - 1);
      let regex = cache.get(key);
      if (!regex) {
        regex = new RegExp("^ {0," + key + "}(?:[*+-]|\\d{1,9}[.)])((?:[ \\t][^\\n]*)?(?:\\n|$))");
        cache.set(key, regex);
      }
      return regex;
    };