Speed up triangulation, especially hole bridging (~52% faster)

LICENSE

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ISC License
 
-Copyright (c) 2024, Mapbox
+Copyright (c) 2026, Mapbox
 
 Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any purpose
 with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice

bench/basic.js

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ const {vertices, holes} = flatten(data);
 
 const start = performance.now();
 let ops = 0;
-let passed = 0;
+let passed;
 
 do {
     earcut(vertices, holes);

bench/bench-tiles.js

@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+// Benchmark earcut over a realistic set of MVT polygons. The fixture was generated
+// from a local tile cache by a one-off, author-machine-specific script; regenerating
+// it is intentionally out of scope for this repo.
+import earcut from '../src/earcut.js';
+import {readTilesFixture} from './tiles-fixture.js';
+
+const polys = readTilesFixture(); // each: {vertices, holes, dimensions, z} ready for earcut
+
+// --- distribution (representativeness check) ---
+const vc = polys.map(p => p.vertices.length / p.dimensions).sort((a, b) => a - b);
+const q = f => vc[Math.min(vc.length - 1, Math.floor(f * vc.length))];
+const withHoles = polys.filter(p => p.holes.length > 0).length;
+const totalVerts = vc.reduce((a, b) => a + b, 0);
+
+console.log(`fixture:  ${polys.length.toLocaleString()} polygons, ${totalVerts.toLocaleString()} vertices`);
+console.log(`          ${(100 * withHoles / polys.length).toFixed(1)}% with holes`);
+console.log(`          verts/poly: median ${q(.5)}, p90 ${q(.9)}, p99 ${q(.99)}, max ${vc[vc.length - 1]}`);
+
+// --- timing ---
+// lean timed path: just triangulate. kept free of any extra work so timing measures
+// earcut alone (the checksum is computed separately, outside the timing loop).
+function run(set) {
+    let tris = 0;
+    for (const d of set) tris += earcut(d.vertices, d.holes, d.dimensions).length;
+    return tris;
+}
+
+// position-weighted fold over all indices: a sensitive drift signal (catches reordered/
+// changed triangulations, not just gross breakage). Run once, never inside timing.
+function checksum(set) {
+    let sum = 0;
+    for (const d of set) {
+        const idx = earcut(d.vertices, d.holes, d.dimensions);
+        for (let i = 0; i < idx.length; i++) sum = (sum + idx[i] * (i + 1)) >>> 0;
+    }
+    return sum;
+}
+// median wall time over a set. Assumes the JIT/caches are already primed: the overall
+// pass is warmed by the tris + checksum runs before it, and the per-zoom slices are
+// warmed by that overall pass (they're subsets of the same polygons).
+function timeSet(set) {
+    const t = [];
+    for (let i = 0; i < 5; i++) { const s = performance.now(); run(set); t.push(performance.now() - s); }
+    t.sort((a, b) => a - b);
+    return {median: t[2], lo: t[0], hi: t[4]};
+}
+
+const tris = run(polys);
+const sum = checksum(polys);
+const overall = timeSet(polys);
+
+console.log(`\nresult:   ${(tris / 3).toLocaleString()} triangles (checksum ${sum})`);
+console.log(`time:     ${overall.median.toFixed(0)} ms   (${overall.lo.toFixed(0)}–${overall.hi.toFixed(0)} ms over 5 runs)`);
+console.log(`speed:    ${Math.round(polys.length / (overall.median / 1000)).toLocaleString()} polygons/s, ` +
+            `${(totalVerts / (overall.median / 1000) / 1e6).toFixed(1)}M verts/s`);
+
+// --- per-zoom breakdown ---
+const byZoom = new Map();
+for (const d of polys) {
+    if (!byZoom.has(d.z)) byZoom.set(d.z, []);
+    byZoom.get(d.z).push(d);
+}
+const zooms = [...byZoom.keys()].sort((a, b) => a - b);
+console.log('\nper zoom:');
+console.log('  z   polygons      verts   med.v   time     %time   polys/s');
+for (const z of zooms) {
+    const set = byZoom.get(z);
+    const v = set.map(d => d.vertices.length / d.dimensions).sort((a, b) => a - b);
+    const verts = v.reduce((a, b) => a + b, 0);
+    const med = v[Math.floor(v.length / 2)];
+    const {median} = timeSet(set); // already warm from the overall pass
+    const pct = 100 * median / overall.median;
+    console.log(
+        `  ${String(z).padStart(2)}  ${set.length.toLocaleString().padStart(8)}  ` +
+        `${verts.toLocaleString().padStart(9)}  ${String(med).padStart(5)}  ` +
+        `${median.toFixed(0).padStart(5)} ms  ${pct.toFixed(1).padStart(5)}%  ` +
+        `${Math.round(set.length / (median / 1000)).toLocaleString().padStart(8)}`);
+}

bench/tiles-fixture.js

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+import {readFileSync} from 'fs';
+import {flatten} from '../src/earcut.js';
+
+// Reads tiles-fixture.bin: length-delimited packed-varint MVT geometry blobs,
+// one per polygon feature. Decodes them with a small varint reader (no pbf
+// dependency), reconstructs polygons by splitting multipolygons and classifying
+// holes by signed area, per the MVT spec.
+//
+// tiles-fixture.bin format (little-endian LEB128 unsigned varints throughout):
+//
+//   file    := tile*                     (repeated until EOF)
+//   tile    := zoom featureCount feature*
+//   feature := geomLen geom              (geomLen = number of varints in geom)
+//   geom    := uint32*                   (raw MVT command/parameter integers)
+//
+// The geom integers are the native MVT polygon encoding: MoveTo/LineTo/ClosePath
+// command-integers interleaved with zigzag delta-encoded coordinate pairs.
+export function readTilesFixture() {
+    const buf = readFileSync(new URL('./tiles-fixture.bin', import.meta.url));
+    const cursor = {pos: 0};
+    const polys = [];
+
+    while (cursor.pos < buf.length) {
+        const z = readVarint(buf, cursor);
+        const features = readVarint(buf, cursor);
+
+        for (let feature = 0; feature < features; feature++) {
+            const count = readVarint(buf, cursor);
+
+            const geom = new Array(count);
+            for (let i = 0; i < count; i++) geom[i] = readVarint(buf, cursor);
+
+            let current = null;
+            const push = (rings) => {
+                const data = flatten(rings);
+                data.z = z;
+                polys.push(data);
+            };
+
+            for (const ring of decodeMvtRings(geom)) {
+                if (ring.length < 3) continue;
+
+                const area = ringArea(ring);
+                if (area === 0) continue;
+
+                if (area > 0) {
+                    if (current) push(current);
+                    current = [ring];
+                } else if (current) {
+                    current.push(ring);
+                }
+            }
+            if (current) push(current);
+        }
+    }
+
+    return polys;
+}
+
+function readVarint(buf, cursor) {
+    let val = 0;
+    let shift = 0;
+    let b;
+    do {
+        let pos = cursor.pos;
+        b = buf[pos++];
+        cursor.pos = pos;
+        val |= (b & 0x7f) << shift;
+        shift += 7;
+    } while (b & 0x80);
+    return val >>> 0;
+}
+
+function decodeMvtRings(geom) {
+    const rings = [];
+    let x = 0;
+    let y = 0;
+    let ring = null;
+    let i = 0;
+
+    while (i < geom.length) {
+        const cmd = geom[i] & 0x7;
+        const count = geom[i] >> 3;
+        i++;
+
+        if (cmd === 1) {
+            for (let k = 0; k < count; k++) {
+                x += zigZagDecode(geom[i++]);
+                y += zigZagDecode(geom[i++]);
+                if (ring) rings.push(ring);
+                ring = [[x, y]];
+            }
+        } else if (cmd === 2) {
+            for (let k = 0; k < count; k++) {
+                x += zigZagDecode(geom[i++]);
+                y += zigZagDecode(geom[i++]);
+                ring.push([x, y]);
+            }
+        } else if (cmd === 7 && ring) {
+            rings.push(ring);
+            ring = null;
+        }
+    }
+
+    if (ring) rings.push(ring);
+    return rings;
+}
+
+function zigZagDecode(n) {
+    return (n >> 1) ^ (-(n & 1));
+}
+
+function ringArea(ring) {
+    let sum = 0;
+    for (let i = 0, j = ring.length - 1; i < ring.length; j = i++) {
+        sum += (ring[j][0] - ring[i][0]) * (ring[i][1] + ring[j][1]);
+    }
+    return sum / 2;
+}