Indexed maps divide nested source maps into sections, annotated with a line and column offset. Since these sections are JSON and can be quickly parsed, we can easily separate them without doing the heavier base64 and VLQ decoding process. This PR updates our sourcemap parsing code to defer parsing of an indexed map section until we actually need to retrieve mappings from it.
This commit dramatically improves the performance of the hook names feature by replacing the source-map-js integration with custom mapping code built on top of sourcemap-codec. Based on my own benchmarking, this makes parsing 3-4 times faster. (The bulk of these changes are in SourceMapConsumer.js.)
While implementing this code, I also uncovered a problem with the way we were caching source-map metadata that was causing us to potential parse the same source-map multiple times. (I addressed this in a separate commit for easier reviewing. The bulk of these changes are in parseSourceAndMetadata.js.)
Altogether these changes dramatically improve the performance of the hooks parsing code.
One additional thing we could look into if the source-map download still remains a large bottleneck would be to stream it and decode the mappings array while it streams in rather than in one synchronous chunk after the full source-map has been downloaded.
Jan Kassens