When the bulk scanner in dump_escaped_impl() stops at a control
character, a quote or a backslash, that byte used to go through the
UTF-8 decoder and a switch that wrote the escape byte by byte into
string_buffer, which was then copied into write_buffer at the next run.
A byte below 0x60 at a character boundary is a complete code point, so
it now skips the decoder: its escape sequence comes from a 96-entry
table of 8-byte rows (sequence padded with zeros, length in the last
byte), and all 8 bytes are copied straight into write_buffer with one
room check. The check sits inside the existing character-boundary
block, so it runs once per scanner stop and not once per byte; testing
every byte cost about 6% on twitter.json with ensure_ascii.
The switch in the decoder's accept branch lost its cases for
characters below 0x60, which can no longer reach it.
Output is byte-identical. The string-buffer boundary tests now use
\u-escaped non-ASCII characters, since simple escapes no longer reach
string_buffer, and a new test case checks every ASCII character at
every position against a reference escaper.
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
Niels Lohmann
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