Speed up JSON pointer parsing, formatting, comparison and lookup (#5836)

* Speed up JSON pointer parsing, formatting, comparison and lookup

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

* Restore unflatten() speed after the linear-time rewrite

The prefix tree introduced for linear unflatten() kept a std::map per prefix,
copied each token into it and looked every token up a second time while
creating the values. Replace the per-prefix maps by one open-addressing table
keyed by (parent, token) that refers to the parsed tokens, skip the lookups for
the prefix shared with the previous key (flattened objects are mostly sorted),
and derive the prefix numbers of the second pass from parent links instead of
lookups.

Time and memory stay linear in the pointer depth, and the result is still
independent of the iteration order of the flattened object.

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

* Put [[noreturn]] before __attribute__ on the JSON pointer throw helpers

Clang 18 on Linux rejects a C++11 attribute list after a GNU
__attribute__ ("an attribute list cannot appear here").

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

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

include/nlohmann/detail/string_escape.hpp

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 #pragma once
 
 #include <cstddef> // size_t
+#include <utility> // move
 
 #include <nlohmann/detail/abi_macros.hpp>
 
@@ -24,39 +25,46 @@ namespace detail
  * Note the order of escaping "~" to "~0" and "/" to "~1" is important.
  *
  * The string is rebuilt in a single pass, appending whole runs between the
- * characters that need escaping. Scanning with find_first_of() keeps the
- * common case -- nothing to escape -- as fast as a single search, while
- * repeated replace() calls would move the tail of the string once per
- * escaped character.
+ * characters that need escaping, while repeated replace() calls would move
+ * the tail of the string once per escaped character. @ref escape_into appends
+ * the escaped string to an existing one.
  */
+template<typename StringType>
+inline void escape_into(StringType& out, const StringType& s)
+{
+    const std::size_t size = s.size();
+    std::size_t run = 0;
+    for (std::size_t i = 0; i < size; ++i)
+    {
+        const char c = s[i];
+        if (c == '~' || c == '/')
+        {
+            out.append(s.data() + run, i - run);
+            out.append(c == '~' ? "~0" : "~1", 2);
+            run = i + 1;
+        }
+    }
+    out.append(s.data() + run, size - run);
+}
+
 template<typename StringType>
 inline StringType escape(const StringType& s)
 {
-    auto next_special = [&s](std::size_t from)
+    // a single scan for both special characters; nothing to escape is the common case
+    const std::size_t size = s.size();
+    std::size_t i = 0;
+    while (i < size && s[i] != '~' && s[i] != '/')
     {
-        const auto tilde = s.find_first_of('~', from);
-        const auto slash = s.find_first_of('/', from);
-        return tilde < slash ? tilde : slash; // npos is the largest value
-    };
-
-    auto pos = next_special(0);
-    if (pos == StringType::npos)
+        ++i;
+    }
+    if (i == size)
     {
         return s;
     }
 
     StringType result;
-    result.reserve(s.size() + 2);
-
-    std::size_t run = 0;
-    while (pos != StringType::npos)
-    {
-        result.append(s.data() + run, pos - run);
-        result.append(s[pos] == '~' ? "~0" : "~1", 2);
-        run = pos + 1;
-        pos = next_special(run);
-    }
-    result.append(s.data() + run, s.size() - run);
+    result.reserve(size + 2);
+    escape_into(result, s);
     return result;
 }
 
@@ -101,7 +109,7 @@ inline void unescape(StringType& s)
         pos = s.find_first_of('~', run);
     }
     result.append(s.data() + run, s.size() - run);
-    s = result;
+    s = std::move(result);
 }
 
 }  // namespace detail