Niels Lohmann e26e1ad312 Append to the output vector through a position-tracking sink ...

The vector-returning to_cbor(), to_msgpack(), ... wrote through
output_vector_sink, which appended each write with push_back() or
insert(). A number's 1 to 8 payload bytes went through vector::insert(),
which libc++ and libstdc++ both run as an out-of-line insert-anywhere
routine; on integer arrays that call cost more than encoding the number,
so the devirtualization of #5286 brought nothing there, and with GCC the
writer was slower than in 3.12.0.

output_vector_sink now keeps its own write position: it grows the vector
geometrically ahead of the position (resize(), using any capacity the
vector already has), copies each write there, and shrinks the vector to
the written length in its destructor, also when a write throws. Writes of
256 characters or more that do not fit are appended with insert(), so a
large string or binary value is copied once instead of zero-filled and
copied. The sink is move-only, as it owns that trim.

output_vector_adapter (the to_*(j, vector) overloads) appends with
push_back()/insert() again, so a caller holding the adapter never sees
the space kept ahead.

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

2026-10-14 13:47:36 +02:00

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Append to the output vector through a position-tracking sink

2026-10-14 13:47:36 +02:00