Scan the strings of json_view with NEON and SSE2

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>
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Niels Lohmann
2026-09-28 23:35:37 +02:00
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@@ -307,3 +307,5 @@ INSERT INTO searchIndex(name, type, path) VALUES ('NLOHMANN_JSON_SERIALIZE_ENUM'
INSERT INTO searchIndex(name, type, path) VALUES ('NLOHMANN_JSON_VERSION_MAJOR', 'Macro', 'api/macros/nlohmann_json_version_major/index.html');
INSERT INTO searchIndex(name, type, path) VALUES ('NLOHMANN_JSON_VERSION_MINOR', 'Macro', 'api/macros/nlohmann_json_version_major/index.html');
INSERT INTO searchIndex(name, type, path) VALUES ('NLOHMANN_JSON_VERSION_PATCH', 'Macro', 'api/macros/nlohmann_json_version_major/index.html');
INSERT INTO searchIndex(name, type, path) VALUES ('JSON_VIEW_NO_SIMD', 'Macro', 'api/macros/json_view_no_simd/index.html');
INSERT INTO searchIndex(name, type, path) VALUES ('JSON_VIEW_USE_SSSE3', 'Macro', 'api/macros/json_view_use_ssse3/index.html');