fix: improve parser performance

a lot of degradation occurred in the last few commits

bench/parseLargeMixed.bench.ts

@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ import { parse as smolTomlParse } from '../src/index.js'
 import { parse as iarnaTomlParse } from '@iarna/toml'
 import { parse as ltdJTomlParse } from '@ltd/j-toml'
 import fastTomlParse from 'fast-toml'
+import { decode as tomlNodejsParse } from 'toml-nodejs'
 
 let toml = await readFile(new URL('./testfiles/5mb-mixed.toml', import.meta.url), 'utf8')
 
@@ -51,3 +52,7 @@ bench('@ltd/j-toml', () => {
 bench('fast-toml', () => {
 	fastTomlParse(toml)
 })
+
+bench('toml-nodejs', () => {
+	tomlNodejsParse(toml)
+})

bench/parseSpecExample.bench.ts

@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ import { parse as smolTomlParse } from '../src/index.js'
 import { parse as iarnaTomlParse } from '@iarna/toml'
 import { parse as ltdJTomlParse } from '@ltd/j-toml'
 import fastTomlParse from 'fast-toml'
+import { decode as tomlNodejsParse } from 'toml-nodejs'
 
 let toml = await readFile(new URL('./testfiles/toml-spec-example.toml', import.meta.url), 'utf8')
 
@@ -50,3 +51,7 @@ bench('@ltd/j-toml', () => {
 bench('fast-toml', () => {
 	fastTomlParse(toml)
 })
+
+bench('toml-nodejs', () => {
+	tomlNodejsParse(toml)
+})

package.json

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 	"type": "module",
 	"engines": {
 		"node": ">= 18",
-		"pnpm": ">= 7.24"
+		"pnpm": ">= 8"
 	},
 	"scripts": {
 		"build": "tsc",
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
 		"@types/node": "^20.1.0",
 		"@vitest/ui": "^0.31.0",
 		"fast-toml": "^0.5.4",
+		"toml-nodejs": "^0.3.0",
 		"typescript": "^5.0.4",
 		"vitest": "^0.31.0"
 	},