v2.0.0

[lemire]

We are happy to announce the second release of ada (v2.0.0) a fast WHATWG-compliant URL parser written in modern C++. The Ada parser is part of Node.js since version XXXX.

What is new in version 2.0.0:

• The first version of Ada required the ICU library as a dependency. Unfortunately, ICU is not always available: it is rarely present under Windows or under Android. Ada 2.0.0 has no dependency: we implement our own fast Unicode functions (to_ascii and to_unicode).
• Ada 2.0.0 can parse a URL into two different data structures, depending on your needs. The ada::url structure stores the components of the parsed URL in different string instances, making updates fast. The new ada::url_aggregator structure uses a single string buffer, thus minimizing memory usage, at the expense of more work during updates. We expect that many users will adopt the ada::url_aggregator structure.

For some tasks, the new ada::url_aggregator can be nearly twice as fast while using less memory.

We present more details and benchmarks in the blog post .... http://...

This release was produced by Yagiz Nizipli, Daniel Lemire, and Miguel Teixeira. We are thankful to the whole community for comments and support.