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Niels LohmannandClaude Opus 4.8
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The SWAR bulk string path stopped at the first non-ASCII byte and handed every multibyte character to the byte-at-a-time scanner, whose per-byte get()/next_byte_in_range()/add() machinery runs at roughly half the speed of validating straight from the buffer. As a result, dense non-ASCII text (CJK, emoji, accented Latin) parsed ~10-15x slower than ASCII. Fold well-formed UTF-8 into the bulk run: scan_string_bulk() now, on a non-ASCII lead byte, validates one sequence with validate_one_utf8() - which mirrors scan_string()'s per-byte switch ranges exactly (rejecting overlong forms, surrogates, and out-of-range code points) - and appends it in place, continuing until the closing quote, an escape, a control byte, or an ill-formed sequence. All error handling still defers to the byte path, so error messages and positions are byte-for-byte unchanged. Because only well-formed content is fast-pathed and every rejection falls through to the existing scanner, behavior is identical; the win is purely throughput. Measured on pointer input (accept, string values discarded): content g++ 13 clang 18 dense CJK 277 -> 648 ~605 MB/s (~2.3x) dense emoji 299 -> 857 ~702 MB/s (~2.6-2.9x) mixed 90% ASCII 246 -> 331 ~334 MB/s (~1.35x) pure ASCII unchanged (~3.2 / 4.1 GB/s) Verified: 2,000,000 randomized documents built from arbitrary bytes (overlong, surrogate, truncated, out-of-range sequences) accept/reject and parse identically via the contiguous path and the streaming byte path; lexer/parser/diagnostic-position/deserialization/conversions suites pass unchanged. Pure C++11, no intrinsics. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AXcDtEma2PjxgmPS9cQGzA Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>