Make parsing from std::istream and FILE* fast (#5828)

* Make parsing from std::istream and FILE* fast

Squashed onto develop cd6b428ef (CI fixes from #5860). Original commits:

- Let the lexer's bulk fast paths run on a window of the input
- Scan the get area of an input stream in bulk
- Lock a FILE once per parse instead of once per character
- Add benchmarks for parsing from a FILE* and for many values from a stream
- Avoid implicit unsigned char to char conversion in stream tests
- Make file_input_adapter::unlock() safe to call on a moved-from adapter

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* Add ABI tags for JSON_DISABLE_STREAM_BULK_SCAN and JSON_DISABLE_UNLOCKED_FILE_IO

Both macros select between two definitions of an input adapter, so
translation units compiled with different settings violated the ODR when
linked together. Like the other ABI-affecting macros, they now append a
tag to the inline namespace: _dsbs and _dufio. Their defaults move to
abi_macros.hpp so that json_fwd.hpp sees them, and the natvis file is
regenerated for the new namespaces.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* Skip the exception-only checks of the stream input tests without exceptions

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

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Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
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@@ -116,6 +116,10 @@ consumer `sax` has a super-linear complexity.
A UTF-8 byte order mark is silently ignored.
When reading from a `#!c FILE*`, the file is locked while it is parsed. The lock is recursive, so the SAX handler may
use the same file with stdio functions, but it must not wait for another thread that uses the same `FILE` object; see
[`JSON_DISABLE_UNLOCKED_FILE_IO`](../macros/json_disable_unlocked_file_io.md).
## Examples
??? example
@@ -137,6 +141,10 @@ A UTF-8 byte order mark is silently ignored.
- [parse](parse.md) - deserialize from a compatible input
- [accept](accept.md) - check if the input is valid JSON
- [`JSON_DISABLE_STREAM_BULK_SCAN`](../macros/json_disable_stream_bulk_scan.md) - read a `std::istream` one character
at a time
- [`JSON_DISABLE_UNLOCKED_FILE_IO`](../macros/json_disable_unlocked_file_io.md) - read a `FILE*` with the locking stdio
functions
## Version history
@@ -148,6 +156,10 @@ A UTF-8 byte order mark is silently ignored.
- Extended overload (2) to accept heterogeneous iterator+sentinel pairs (C++20 ranges support) in version 3.13.0.
- `JSON_PRECISE_STREAM_POSITION` added in version 3.13.0 to optionally leave a `#!cpp std::istream` positioned right
after the parsed value when `strict` is `#!cpp false`.
- Parsing from an `std::istream` scans the characters in its stream buffer in bulk in version 3.13.0
([`JSON_DISABLE_STREAM_BULK_SCAN`](../macros/json_disable_stream_bulk_scan.md)).
- Parsing from a `FILE*` locks the file once instead of once per character in version 3.13.0
([`JSON_DISABLE_UNLOCKED_FILE_IO`](../macros/json_disable_unlocked_file_io.md)).
!!! warning "Deprecation"