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>
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## Template parameters
`NumberFloatType`
: the type to store floating-point numbers. Parsing and serialization are implemented in terms of
`#!cpp std::strtof`/`#!cpp std::strtod`/`#!cpp std::strtold` and `#!cpp std::snprintf`, so the type must be
`#!cpp float`, `#!cpp double`, or `#!cpp long double`. The
: the type to store floating-point numbers. The parser converts `#!cpp float`, `#!cpp double`, and a
`#!cpp long double` that is IEEE 754 binary64 itself and other `#!cpp long double` formats with
`#!cpp std::from_chars` or `#!cpp std::strtold`, and serialization falls back to `#!cpp std::snprintf`, so the
type must be `#!cpp float`, `#!cpp double`, or `#!cpp long double`. The
[binary formats](../../features/binary_formats/index.md) additionally require `#!cpp float` or `#!cpp double`,
because they have no encoding for `#!cpp long double`. See
[Template Parameter Requirements](../../features/types/template_parameters.md#numberfloattype).