Using int was a mistake. This patch changes String, StringImpl,
StringView and StringBuilder to use size_t instead of int for lengths.
Obviously a lot of code needs to change as a result of this.
Keep a 256-entry string cache during parse to avoid creating some new
strings when possible. This cache is far from perfect but very cheap.
Since none of the strings are transient, this only costs us a couple of
pointers and a bit of ref-count manipulation.
The cache hit rate on 4chan_catalog.json is ~33% and the speedup on
the load_4chan_catalog benchmark is ~7%.
- Return more specific types from parse_array() and parse_object().
- Don't create a throwaway String in extract_while().
- Use a StringView in parse_number() to avoid a throwaway String.
