Adopt new Token representation

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Refactor
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
php
Domain
compilers

Research direction

Start by reading docs/HowItWorks.md#notes and inspect the parser's current Token representation. Trace where Token objects are created and consumed, then identify the scope of the proposed replacement. Done means the token representation has been migrated while preserving parser behavior and reducing memory usage.

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Description

performance

As discussed in HowItWorks.md#notes, there are ways that we can significantly reduce memory usage by moving away from objects for Tokens. This issue tracks progress on that work.

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Merged PRs (30d)
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