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improve case conversion happy path
Someone shared the source code for [Go's string case conversion](19156a5474/src/strings/strings.go (L558-L616)
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It features a hot path for ascii-only strings (although I assume for reasons specific to go, they've opted for a read safe hot loop).
I've borrowed these ideas and also kept our existing code to provide a fast path + seamless utf-8 correct path fallback.
(Naive) Benchmarks can be found here https://github.com/conradludgate/case-conv
For the cases where non-ascii is found near the start, the performance of this algorithm does fall back to original speeds and has not had any measurable speed loss