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Boshen f1862c4303 docs(minifier): add comprehensive documentation for oxc_minifier (#13938)
Goal of this PR is too feed AI with more context.

## Summary
Add extensive documentation to guide development of the world's best JavaScript minifier.

## Documentation Added

### New Files
- **ARCHITECTURE.md**: Design philosophy and component overview
- **OPTIMIZATIONS.md**: Catalog of all 17 current optimizations and planned additions
- **ASSUMPTIONS.md**: Document code assumptions for safe optimizations
- **CORRECTNESS.md**: Testing strategies and validation guarantees
- **ROADMAP.md**: Development phases and success metrics
- **CLAUDE.md**: AI assistant guide for development

### Updated Files
- **README.md**: Updated with features, testing infrastructure, and documentation links
- **src/lib.rs**: Enhanced module documentation with examples

## Goals
This documentation establishes the vision for oxc_minifier:
- 🎯 **Smallest output size** (beat Closure Compiler)
- ✅ **100% correctness** (full test suite compliance)
- ⚡ **Reasonable performance** (competitive with esbuild)

## Inspiration
Learning from industry leaders:
- Closure Compiler (advanced size optimizations)
- Terser/UglifyJS (comprehensive battle-tested transforms)
- esbuild (efficient algorithms)
- SWC (modern Rust architecture)

## Benefits
- Clear development roadmap
- Comprehensive optimization documentation
- AI-friendly development guide
- Testing and correctness guarantees
- Documented assumptions for safe optimizations

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Development Roadmap

Phase 1: Foundation ✓

  • Basic peephole optimizations
  • Constant folding
  • Dead code elimination
  • Test infrastructure (minsize, coverage, e2e)
  • Fixed-point iteration

Phase 2: Complete Optimization Suite ✓

  • Port safe optimizations from Closure Compiler
  • Port core optimizations from Terser/UglifyJS
  • Advanced constant propagation
  • Cross-statement optimizations
  • Template literal optimization
  • Array/object patterns

Phase 3: Advanced Optimizations (Current)

  • Function inlining (when provably safe)
  • Switch statement optimization
  • Advanced string concatenation (extending oxc_ecmascript string operations)
  • Enum unboxing
  • Property collapsing
  • Better RegExp optimization
  • Loop optimizations
  • Cross-module optimization
  • Perfect side effect analysis (extending oxc_ecmascript capabilities)
  • Advanced DCE with escape analysis
  • Type-aware optimizations (from TS types)
  • Framework-specific optimizations (React, Vue, Angular)

Phase 4: Production Ready

  • Differential testing framework
  • Fuzzing infrastructure
  • Performance optimization
  • Source map improvements
  • Custom optimization plugins

Goals

Size: Beat Closure Compiler, smallest output for top npm packages Correctness: 100% test262/Babel/TypeScript conformance Performance: < 2x slower than esbuild, < 10x faster than Terser Adoption: Integration in major build tools

Contributing

  • Port optimizations from Closure Compiler, Terser, esbuild
  • Test with real-world code and report issues
  • Performance profiling and optimization
  • Documentation improvements

See CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines.