Add fast path for ASCII in UTF-8 validation
This speeds up the ASCII case (and long stretches of ASCII in otherwise
mixed UTF-8 data) when checking UTF-8 validity.
Benchmark results suggest that on purely ASCII input, we can improve
throughput (megabytes verified / second) by a factor of 13 to 14 (smallish input).
On XML and mostly English language input (en.wikipedia XML dump),
throughput improves by a factor 7 (large input).
On mostly non-ASCII input, performance increases slightly or is the
same.
The UTF-8 validation is rewritten to use indexed access; since all
access is preceded by a (mandatory for validation) length check, bounds
checks are statically elided by LLVM and this formulation is in fact the best
for performance. A previous version had losses due to slice to iterator
conversions.
A large credit to Björn Steinbrink who improved this patch immensely,
writing this second version.
Benchmark results on x86-64 (Sandy Bridge) compiled with -C opt-level=3.
Old code is `regular`, this PR is called `fast`.
Datasets:
- `ascii` is just ASCII (2.5 kB)
- `cyr` is cyrillic script with ascii spaces (5 kB)
- `dewik10` is 10MB of a de.wikipedia XML dump
- `enwik8` is 100MB of an en.wikipedia XML dump
- `jawik10` is 10MB of a ja.wikipedia XML dump
```
test from_utf8_ascii_fast ... bench: 140 ns/iter (+/- 4) = 18221 MB/s
test from_utf8_ascii_regular ... bench: 1,932 ns/iter (+/- 19) = 1320 MB/s
test from_utf8_cyr_fast ... bench: 10,025 ns/iter (+/- 245) = 511 MB/s
test from_utf8_cyr_regular ... bench: 10,944 ns/iter (+/- 795) = 468 MB/s
test from_utf8_dewik10_fast ... bench: 6,017,909 ns/iter (+/- 105,755) = 1740 MB/s
test from_utf8_dewik10_regular ... bench: 11,669,493 ns/iter (+/- 264,045) = 891 MB/s
test from_utf8_enwik8_fast ... bench: 14,085,692 ns/iter (+/- 1,643,316) = 7000 MB/s
test from_utf8_enwik8_regular ... bench: 93,657,410 ns/iter (+/- 5,353,353) = 1000 MB/s
test from_utf8_jawik10_fast ... bench: 29,154,073 ns/iter (+/- 4,659,534) = 340 MB/s
test from_utf8_jawik10_regular ... bench: 29,112,917 ns/iter (+/- 2,475,123) = 340 MB/s
```
Co-authored-by: Björn Steinbrink <bsteinbr@gmail.com>
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