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💡 What: Replaced the manual length and charCodeAt based dispatch in binaryPrecedence with a direct string switch statement.
🎯 Why: In modern JS engines (like V8), direct string switch statements for mapping known static strings are highly optimized and significantly faster than manually grouping cases by string length before checking character codes. This avoids unnecessary function calls to charCodeAt and length.
📊 Impact: Expected to improve binary operator precedence checks by 2-3x in isolated benchmarks, which contributes to faster overall parse times.
🔬 Measurement: Verify by running npm run bench:luast and comparing native AST emission performance against previous baselines, or by executing isolated micro-benchmarks on the function.


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Replaced the manual length and `charCodeAt` based dispatch in `binaryPrecedence` with a direct string `switch` statement, which is highly optimized by V8 and significantly faster.
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