Speed up the lexer: own float parser, string scan, and \u table (#5738)

* Speed up the lexer: own float parser, string scan, and \u table

Give the library its own correctly rounded float converter for
binary32 and binary64 (IEEE 754), and speed up the lexer's string
and escape scanning.

The converter splits a number token into sign, significand, and
decimal exponent, then tries Clinger's fast path, then a templated
Eisel-Lemire step, and falls back to an exact big-integer digit
comparison for tokens with more than 19 significant digits whose two
candidate values round differently. This replaces std::from_chars
and strtod/strtof for both formats, so parsed values no longer
depend on the C/C++ library or the current locale. The strtold
fallback kept for other long double formats (x87, binary128) now
also copies a multi-byte decimal point correctly, fixing #5660.
eisel_lemire() and decimal_to_float() are always inlined so callers
keep the whole conversion in their hot loop.

The string-scanning kernels in string_scan.hpp find a stop byte with
the trailing-zero count of the SWAR mask instead of a byte loop, and
scalar_string_bulk_run() validates a run of multi-byte UTF-8
sequences one after another instead of re-searching after each one.

get_codepoint() decodes a contiguous \uXXXX escape with one table
lookup per byte instead of four range-checked get() calls; the
streaming path and all error positions are unchanged.

Adds 508 generated hard float-parsing cases with expected binary32
and binary64 bits, and kernel-comparison tests for the string scans
and the escape table against byte-by-byte references.

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

* Fix CI warnings in own float parser

- pow5_table.hpp: pow5_128_largest_power was unused in this branch's
  own code (GCC -Werror=unused-const-variable); tie it to the table
  size with a static_assert instead of removing it, since a later
  branch in the stack (json-view/23-zmij) uses it.
- number_parse.hpp: rename the local variable `copy` to `buffer` to
  satisfy cpplint's build/include_what_you_use check.
- unit-class_lexer.cpp: extend the NOLINT list on the seeded mt19937
  with bugprone-random-generator-seed, and parenthesize
  `8 * sizeof(Bits) - 1` for clang-tidy.

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

* Load string scan words with memcpy and use MSVC bit-scan intrinsics

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

* Reword float conversion notes for the string type and number_float_t docs

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

* Fix clang-tidy 22 findings in unit-class_lexer.cpp

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

* Mark the unsigned long of the MSVC bit scans for cpplint

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* Regenerate the amalgamated headers

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

* Drop the position updates in the bulk \u path, which #5809 made unused

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

* Address review: std::any_of in has_nonzero_digit, comment punctuation

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* Use data() instead of c_str() in the multi-byte decimal point path

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

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

include/nlohmann/detail/input/lexer.hpp

@@ -233,6 +233,41 @@ class lexer : public lexer_base<BasicJsonType>
     // scan functions
     /////////////////////
 
+    /// contiguous input: try to decode the 4 hex digits following `\\u`
+    /// directly from the input buffer via hex_codepoint(), instead of 4 calls
+    /// to get(). On success, advances the adapter exactly as those 4 get()
+    /// calls would (bulk_scan implies lazy_position, so there are no position
+    /// counters to advance) and leaves @a current holding the last of
+    /// the 4 digits, just as the last such get() would; the codepoint is
+    /// written to @a out. Makes no state change and returns false for a
+    /// pending unget, fewer than 4 remaining bytes, or any of the 4 bytes not
+    /// being a hex digit, so the caller falls back unchanged to the
+    /// per-character loop, which then reports the same diagnostic (stopping
+    /// at the first invalid digit) as before this optimization.
+    bool get_codepoint_bulk(std::true_type /*bulk*/, int& out)
+    {
+        if (next_unget || ia.bulk_remaining() < 4)
+        {
+            return false;
+        }
+        const char_type* const raw = ia.bulk_data();
+        const int codepoint = hex_codepoint(reinterpret_cast<const unsigned char*>(raw));
+        if (codepoint < 0)
+        {
+            return false;
+        }
+        ia.bulk_skip(4);
+        current = char_traits<char_type>::to_int_type(raw[3]);
+        out = codepoint;
+        return true;
+    }
+
+    /// streaming input: no bulk fast path
+    bool get_codepoint_bulk(std::false_type /*bulk*/, int& /*out*/) const noexcept
+    {
+        return false;
+    }
+
     /*!
     @brief get codepoint from 4 hex characters following `\\u`
 
@@ -252,6 +287,14 @@ class lexer : public lexer_base<BasicJsonType>
     {
         // this function only makes sense after reading `\u`
         JSON_ASSERT(current == 'u');
+
+        // contiguous input: decode all 4 hex digits directly from the buffer
+        int fast_codepoint = 0;
+        if (get_codepoint_bulk(std::integral_constant<bool, bulk_scan> {}, fast_codepoint))
+        {
+            return fast_codepoint;
+        }
+
         int codepoint = 0;
 
         const auto factors = { 12u, 8u, 4u, 0u };
@@ -1052,9 +1095,11 @@ class lexer : public lexer_base<BasicJsonType>
             token_type::parse_error otherwise
 
     @note The scanner is independent of the current locale: token_buffer
-          always holds `.`. Only the std::strtod fallback of convert_number()
-          depends on the locale, and it looks up the decimal point right
-          before converting (see detail::convert_float_locale_aware()).
+          always holds `.`. The conversion of float and double does not use
+          the locale either. Only the std::strtold fallback of
+          convert_number() for long double formats other than binary64
+          depends on it, and it looks up the decimal point right before
+          converting (see detail::convert_float_locale_aware()).
     */
     token_type scan_number()  // lgtm [cpp/use-of-goto] `goto` is used in this function to implement the number-parsing state machine described above. By design, any finite input will eventually reach the "done" state or return token_type::parse_error. In each intermediate state, 1 byte of the input is appended to the token_buffer vector, and only the already initialized variables token_buffer, number_type, and error_message are manipulated.
     {
@@ -1067,7 +1112,7 @@ class lexer : public lexer_base<BasicJsonType>
 
         // offset just past the last mantissa byte in token_buffer (i.e. the
         // index of 'e'/'E', or the whole token when there is no exponent).
-        // convert_number() uses it to count significant digits; npos means
+        // convert_number() uses it to split the token; npos means
         // "not seen an exponent yet" and is resolved at scan_number_done
         std::size_t mantissa_end = std::string::npos;
 
@@ -1397,8 +1442,8 @@ scan_number_done:
     @param[in] mantissa_end  offset just past the last mantissa byte in
                              token_buffer (the index of 'e'/'E', or
                              token_buffer.size() when there is no exponent);
-                             used to skip Clinger's fast path when it cannot
-                             possibly succeed - see detail::mantissa_fits_clinger()
+                             with decimal_point_position, it locates the parts
+                             of a float token without scanning it again
     */
     token_type convert_number(token_type number_type, std::size_t mantissa_end)
     {
@@ -1452,10 +1497,11 @@ scan_number_done:
         }
 
         // this code is reached if we parse a floating-point number or if an
-        // integer conversion above overflowed. Prefer std::from_chars
-        // (Eisel-Lemire, locale-independent, correctly rounded) when available;
-        // otherwise the exact Clinger fast path (double only); otherwise the
-        // locale-aware strtof/strtod/strtold.
+        // integer conversion above overflowed. float and double (and long
+        // double where it is binary64) are converted by the library itself,
+        // correctly rounded and independent of the locale; other long double
+        // formats use std::from_chars when available, otherwise the
+        // locale-aware strtold.
         if (convert_float_fast(num_begin, num_end, decimal_point_position, mantissa_end, value_float))
         {
             return token_type::value_float;