Copy the short runs between escapes as a block of 16 bytes

The characters between two escapes (a quote, a backslash, a control
character) are copied to the write buffer by memcpy with a length known only
at run time. For a run of up to 16 characters that has 16 or more bytes in
the string behind its start and in the buffer behind its end, a copy of a
fixed block of 16 bytes does the same without the call; the surplus bytes in
the buffer are overwritten by what follows.

Apple M1, Apple clang, retired instructions per dump(), on top of the
previous changes:
  JSON in JSON 8.32M -> 7.52M (-10 %)   paths 8.17M -> 7.49M (-8 %)
  log lines 7.49M -> 7.14M (-5 %)       cjk, emoji text (no escapes): +-1 %
Linux x86-64 (callgrind), gcc 13 / clang 18:
  JSON in JSON -11 % / -10 %, paths -7 % / -6 %, log lines -5 % / -4 %.
The branch is marked unlikely: text without escapes (CJK, accented Latin)
has few short runs, and without the hint it paid up to 5 % for the check.

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

include/nlohmann/detail/output/serializer.hpp

@@ -1038,7 +1038,7 @@ class serializer
                         put_buffer(string_buffer, bytes);
                         bytes = 0;
                     }
-                    put_string(s, i, i + run);
+                    put_run(s, i, run);
                     bytes_after_last_accept = 0;
                     undumped_chars = 0;
                     i += run;
@@ -1474,6 +1474,28 @@ class serializer
         write_buffer_pos += length;
     }
 
+    /*!
+    @brief append the characters of @a str in [@a start, @a start + @a length)
+
+    A run of up to 16 characters with 16 or more in the string from @a start on
+    and in the write buffer from its end on is copied as a whole block of 16,
+    which spares the call of memcpy with a length known only at run time; the
+    surplus characters in the buffer are overwritten by what follows.
+    */
+    template<typename StringType>
+    void put_run(const StringType& str, const std::size_t start, const std::size_t length)
+    {
+        // a short run is the exception in text without escapes (CJK, accented
+        // Latin), for which this keeps the long path the fast one
+        if (JSON_HEDLEY_UNLIKELY(length <= 16 && start + 16 <= str.size() && write_buffer_pos + 16 <= write_buffer.size()))
+        {
+            std::memcpy(write_buffer.data() + write_buffer_pos, str.data() + start, 16);
+            write_buffer_pos += length;
+            return;
+        }
+        put_string(str, start, start + length);
+    }
+
     /*!
     @brief append the characters of @a str in [@a start, @a end)
 

single_include/nlohmann/json.hpp

@@ -31182,7 +31182,7 @@ class serializer
                         put_buffer(string_buffer, bytes);
                         bytes = 0;
                     }
-                    put_string(s, i, i + run);
+                    put_run(s, i, run);
                     bytes_after_last_accept = 0;
                     undumped_chars = 0;
                     i += run;
@@ -31618,6 +31618,28 @@ class serializer
         write_buffer_pos += length;
     }
 
+    /*!
+    @brief append the characters of @a str in [@a start, @a start + @a length)
+
+    A run of up to 16 characters with 16 or more in the string from @a start on
+    and in the write buffer from its end on is copied as a whole block of 16,
+    which spares the call of memcpy with a length known only at run time; the
+    surplus characters in the buffer are overwritten by what follows.
+    */
+    template<typename StringType>
+    void put_run(const StringType& str, const std::size_t start, const std::size_t length)
+    {
+        // a short run is the exception in text without escapes (CJK, accented
+        // Latin), for which this keeps the long path the fast one
+        if (JSON_HEDLEY_UNLIKELY(length <= 16 && start + 16 <= str.size() && write_buffer_pos + 16 <= write_buffer.size()))
+        {
+            std::memcpy(write_buffer.data() + write_buffer_pos, str.data() + start, 16);
+            write_buffer_pos += length;
+            return;
+        }
+        put_string(str, start, start + length);
+    }
+
     /*!
     @brief append the characters of @a str in [@a start, @a end)