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>
- API pages for operator== and operator!= of basic_json_view, linked
both ways with the basic_json pages
- the feature page and the class overview list the comparisons
- the examples show when the view helps: detecting a changed document
without building json values
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- API pages for dump, number_format, and operator<< of basic_json_view,
linked both ways with the basic_json pages
- the feature page describes document order and number_format::source
- the examples show when the view helps: forwarding part of a message
and writing numbers exactly as they were read
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- API pages for get, get_to, get_string, number_token, and value of
basic_json_view; JSON pointer overloads of operator[], at, and
contains; links both ways with the basic_json pages
- the feature page describes which conversions copy nothing
- the examples show when the view helps: strings without copies, numbers
exactly as written, and paths into a large text
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- API pages for operator[], at, front, back, find, contains, count,
begin, end, cbegin, cend, items, and type_name of basic_json_view,
linked both ways with the basic_json pages
- the feature page and size() describe document order and duplicate
keys
- the examples show when the view helps: reading a few fields of a large
text, probing optional members, and members in source order
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- API pages for basic_json_document and basic_json_view, one per member,
and for the four aliases, each with an example
- features/json_view.md: the problem the view solves, ownership and
lifetime, what matches basic_json::parse() and what differs, and when
to choose json, ordered_json, SAX, or the view
- the examples show why one would use the view, not only how: borrowed
vs. owned input, reading a few fields and materializing one subtree,
reusing a document across many messages
- registered in the mkdocs navigation, llms.txt, the docset, the
exceptions page (out_of_range.416), architecture.md, the integration
page, and the README; the yyjson credit is added to the README and
license.md
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* Add BON8 support
Add to_bon8/from_bon8 and input_format_t::bon8 for BON8, a binary format
that uses the byte values that cannot begin a UTF-8 character as type
markers, so strings need no length prefix. It is the most compact of the
supported binary formats on the benchmark files.
The reader is non-recursive like the other binary readers. A string ends
at the first byte that cannot continue it, so the reader hands the one or
two bytes it reads past a string back to the value that follows. The
writer produces the canonical representation of the specification, except
for NFC normalization; its output is identical to that of the reference
implementation (HikoGUI) on all files of the test data.
The round-trip tests need the .bon8 files of json_test_data 3.2.0.
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
* Address review comments
- Reuse detail::validate_one_utf8 to check strings in to_bon8; the error
now names the first byte of the invalid sequence.
- Document that to_bon8 leaves bytes in the output adapter on an
exception, and that string_open is only an output of write_bon8_marker.
- Explain why the pushback buffer of the BON8 reader cannot overflow.
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* Select the BON8 float prefix by type
get_bon8_float_prefix only depends on the type of its argument, so make
the type a template parameter instead of passing an unused value.
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* Rename a test variable that Flawfinder mistakes for read()
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* Fix the BON8 CI failures
- compare the float in write_bon8_float with number_float_t constants,
so GCC does not warn about a float-to-double conversion
- mark check_bon8_utf8's context as used when exceptions are disabled
- choose the compact float prefix in a helper rather than with nested
conditional operators (clang-tidy)
- use auto for the cast in the BON8 integer reader (clang-tidy)
- write the int32 minimum test values as long long literals (MSVC C4146)
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* Amalgamate
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* Read BON8 strings in bulk from contiguous input
- copy the valid UTF-8 of a string in one step when the input is
contiguous (twitter.json is read in 1.68 instead of 2.52 ms,
jeopardy.json in 196 instead of 297 ms, close to CBOR and MessagePack)
- share the new valid_utf8_prefix() with the writer's UTF-8 check, which
now skips ASCII 8 bytes at a time
- let the fuzzer check that contiguous and stream input give the same
value or error, and test both paths in the unit tests
- clarify that a second 0xFF after a string is an empty string
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* Link the BON8 functions from the other binary format pages
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* Name the bulk scan flag after the input, not BON8
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* Read BSON keys in bulk from contiguous input
BSON keys (and array indices) are C-style strings, which were read byte
by byte. For contiguous input they are now read up to their \x00-byte in
one step, using the same bulk_scan flag as BON8 strings: twitter.json is
read in 1.46 instead of 2.01 ms, citm_catalog.json in 2.93 instead of
3.33 ms, jeopardy.json in 182 instead of 207 ms. canada.json, whose keys
are almost all one-digit array indices, takes 2 % longer.
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
* Fix the BON8 CI failures of the bulk-read tests
- skip the contiguous-versus-stream tests of BON8 strings and BSON keys
when exceptions are disabled: they catch the parse errors of invalid
input, and without exceptions the library aborts instead
- use static_cast for the int64 test value (google-readability-casting)
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* Move the explicit basic_json instantiation into its own test file
Linking test-regression3_cpp20 with clang and MinGW failed with
"relocation truncated to fit: IMAGE_REL_AMD64_REL32 against `.rdata'",
as test-regression2 did before #5511. The explicit instantiation of
basic_json<> for #4825 compiles every member function, including the
BON8 reader and writer, into that object, and it was already close to
the limit (2,226,104 bytes on develop, 2,234,960 with BON8; clang -O1,
C++20).
Give the instantiation a file of its own: unit-regression3 is now
1,594,736 bytes and unit-explicit_instantiation 1,095,064. The new file
mentions JSON_HAS_CPP_17 and JSON_HAS_CPP_20 so it keeps being built
for the C++17 standard the regression was about.
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* Convert the bytes of the BON8 test strings explicitly
The str() helper constructed a std::string from a byte range, which
converts each unsigned char implicitly; -fsanitize=integer reports that
for bytes of 0x80 and above (ci_test_clang_sanitizer).
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* 📝 Fix stale 3.12.x placeholder in operator_ne.md version history
PR #5253 (removing the hand-written operator!= to fix #3868/P2468R2)
merged after the earlier 3.12.x -> 3.13.0 global sweep, so its new
version-history entries were written with the stale placeholder.
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* 🐛 Fix stale twitter.com link in docset.json
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* Move UDLs into nlohmann::literals::json_literals namespace
* Add 'using namespace' to unit tests
* Add 'using namespace' to examples
* Add 'using namespace' to README
* Move UDL mkdocs pages out of basic_json/
* Update documentation
* Update docset index
* Add JSON_GlobalUDLs CMake option
* Add unit test
* Build examples without global UDLs
* Add CI target