From: Jean Privat Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2015 20:27:41 +0000 (-0500) Subject: Merge: Faster hex parsing X-Git-Tag: v0.8~22 X-Git-Url: http://nitlanguage.org Merge: Faster hex parsing As said in #1895, we need faster parsing of UTF-16 escaping sequences, this PR is the answer. It makes the runtime of the `large_escaped` benchmark go down from ~5s to ~3.5s, and with valgrind, from 26GIr to 20GIr Note: based on #1886, only the 4 last commits are of interest here Pull-Request: #1896 Reviewed-by: Jean Privat --- 7e303172862324a8aa68db5162fc32d605d4f69e