The Clinger fast path is exact only for the "easy" subset (<=19 significant
digits, |exp10| <= 22); high-precision and scientific floats fall through to
strtod, where the failed Clinger attempt actually makes parsing a net loss.
std::from_chars implements the Eisel-Lemire algorithm in modern standard
libraries: locale-independent, correctly rounded, and fast over the whole
value range.
convert_number() now tries parse_float_from_chars() first (guarded by
__cpp_lib_to_chars, so C++11 and libc++-without-float-support keep the
Clinger + strtod path unchanged), then Clinger, then strtof. from_chars is
used only when it consumes the entire token; a partial parse means a non-'.'
locale decimal point, and an under-/overflow (result_out_of_range) also
declines - in both cases the existing strtod fallback supplies the exact
value and the well-defined +/-inf/0 the parser expects, side-stepping the
P4168 divergence between implementations. float and long double now get the
fast path too (Clinger was double-only).
Measured, C++17, g++ 13 -O3, json::parse/accept:
- canada-style floats: ~unchanged (Clinger already covered them)
- high-precision (17 digits): parse 2.1x, accept 2.5x
- scientific (17 digits + exp): parse 3.6x, accept 4.1x
Verified: C++11 (Clinger/strtod) and C++17 (from_chars) parse every value -
including subnormals, boundary values, and 1e9999/1e-9999 over-/underflow -
to bit-identical results; 2M number-fuzz clean; conversions/deserialization/
locale/number-fast-path suites pass in both C++11 and C++17; clang-tidy
clean; warning-clean on g++ and clang in C++11/17/20.
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The CI clang-tidy (newer than the locally available version) reported two
additional checks on the new code:
- readability-math-missing-parentheses: parenthesize the (a * b) + c digit
accumulations in number_parse.hpp.
- cppcoreguidelines-missing-std-forward: the contiguous-byte-container
input_adapter overload took a forwarding reference but only reads
data()/size() and never forwards it. It is already disjoint from the
generic container overload via SFINAE, so a plain const& is correct and
clearer (and keeps the container alive for the whole parse just as before).
No behavior change; char_type and routing are unchanged (std::string and
std::vector<std::uint8_t> still take the pointer adapter with char/uint8_t
char_type), CBOR/MsgPack round-trips and the 2M number fuzz still pass.
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- number_parse.hpp: use std::array for the powers-of-ten table
(avoid-c-arrays) and `auto` for the cast-initialized result
(modernize-use-auto), matching the codebase style (cf. the serializer's
utf8d table). Indexing casts keep the -Wsign-conversion build clean.
- add JSON_USE_SIMDUTF to the mkdocs navigation so the macro page is
reachable.
No behavior change; clang-tidy is clean on the new headers and the
amalgamation is regenerated.
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lexer.hpp had grown by ~600 lines of byte-level helpers that have no
dependency on the lexer's template parameters and clutter the state
machine. Move them, unchanged, into two focused headers as free functions
in namespace detail:
- number_parse.hpp: parse_integer_unsigned/parse_integer_signed (now
templated on the number type) and parse_float_fast (Clinger's exact
double fast path, with the decimal point passed as an argument instead of
read from a lexer member).
- string_scan.hpp: the SWAR string helpers (is_string_special,
swar_string_special, find_string_special, validate_one_utf8,
scalar_string_bulk_run) and the backend-dispatched string_bulk_run,
including the optional simdutf include and find_string_delimiter.
lexer.hpp now includes these and calls the free functions; the methods that
touch lexer state (scan_string, scan_number, scan_string_bulk,
scan_number_bulk_contiguous, convert_number) stay put. This is a pure code
move with no behavior change: lexer.hpp drops from 2357 to 1934 lines, the
now-unused <cstdint>/<cstring>/<limits> includes are removed, and the
free-function form makes the SWAR helpers reusable elsewhere (e.g. the
serializer's string escaping).
Verified: default and JSON_USE_SIMDUTF builds compile; 2,000,000 number and
2,000,000 arbitrary-byte-string differential-fuzz documents parse
identically to before; lexer/parser/conversions/deserialization/locale/
diagnostic-position suites pass (20,576 assertions); warning-clean on g++
and clang in C++11/17/20; the amalgamation regenerates and passes
check-amalgamation.
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