Long runs of string bytes are scanned 16 at a time with NEON (AArch64, with
GCC and Clang) and SSE2 (x86-64): both belong to the baseline instruction
sets. A signed compare with 0x20 finds control characters and non-ASCII
bytes at once. Keys keep 16 table checks before the vector loop (their
lengths repeat from record to record, so the branches predict well);
string values have 8, as their lengths vary more.
Non-ASCII text is validated 16 bytes at a time with the "lookup4" check of
simdjson (J. Keiser and D. Lemire, "Validating UTF-8 In Less Than One
Instruction Per Byte", 2021): with NEON, and on x86-64 with SSSE3 if
JSON_VIEW_USE_SSSE3 is defined (SSSE3 is not part of x86-64, and the code
must not depend on the flags of a translation unit). JSON_VIEW_NO_SIMD
selects the portable code. The vector code sits in
detail/view/simd.hpp; the same input is accepted either way.
json_document::parse, best of 7 runs in separate processes (M1 Max):
poet.json (CJK text) -72%, random.json -25%, twitter.json -22%,
gsoc-2018.json -20%, semanticscholar -19%, github_events -11%,
apache_builds -9.5%, canada/citm -5/-6%; lottie +4%, tree-pretty +2.5%.
Tests: every two-byte sequence and three- and four-byte sequences with
continuation bytes at the edges of their ranges, at every offset around
the vector blocks of keys and values, cut short, and long runs of text
with a damaged byte, against json::accept and json::parse. CMake builds
the parser tests again with JSON_VIEW_NO_SIMD, and on x86-64 with
JSON_VIEW_USE_SSSE3 and -mssse3; the macros are documented.
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
The public classes of the zero-copy view (#5295), in the new header
<nlohmann/json_view.hpp>:
- basic_json_document<BasicJsonType>: parse (borrowing contiguous byte
inputs, owning rvalue strings, streams, and other inputs), parse_copy,
accept, read, root, is_discarded, source, owns_source, node_count,
memory_usage, shrink_to_fit
- basic_json_view<BasicJsonType>: type and the is_* queries, size, empty,
materialize (the value parse() would produce, built by the same SAX
handler), source_offset
- the aliases json_document, json_view, ordered_json_document, and
ordered_json_view
A parse error throws the exception basic_json::parse would throw for the
same input: the library parser is run on the failing input, so messages,
positions, and exception ids are the same. Inputs of 4 GiB or more are
rejected with out_of_range.416.
The single header single_include/nlohmann/json_view.hpp keeps including
json.hpp; make amalgamate, check-amalgamation, include.zip, and release
handle it.
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
Internal parts of the zero-copy view (#5295), under detail/view and not
included by json.hpp, so that users of json.hpp compile nothing of it:
- macro_scope.hpp/macro_unscope.hpp: the few macros the view needs, under
its own prefix (json.hpp undefines its own at its end); the throw macro
honors JSON_NOEXCEPTION and JSON_THROW_USER like JSON_THROW
- string_ref.hpp: std::string_view from C++17 on, else a small stand-in
- node.hpp: the 16-byte node of the index; its kinds are value_t values
(checked by a static_assert)
- document_data.hpp: the storage of a parsed document (node array, decode
arena, owned input)
- scan.hpp: string and digit scanning with unrolled checks at fixed offsets
(after yyjson) and the library's SWAR and UTF-8 checks, independent of the
byte order
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
Niels Lohmann