encoding/json: speed up tokenization of literals
encoding/json: speed up tokenization of literals

Decoder.Decode and Unmarshal actually scan the input bytes twice - the
first time to check for syntax errors and the length of the value, and
the second to perform the decoding.

It's in the second scan that we actually tokenize the bytes. Since
syntax errors aren't a possibility, we can take shortcuts.

In particular, literals such as quoted strings are very common in JSON,
so we can avoid a lot of work by special casing them.

name                  old time/op    new time/op    delta
CodeDecoder-8           10.3ms ± 1%     9.1ms ± 0%  -11.89%  (p=0.002 n=6+6)
UnicodeDecoder-8         342ns ± 0%     283ns ± 0%  -17.25%  (p=0.000 n=6+5)
DecoderStream-8          239ns ± 0%     230ns ± 0%   -3.90%  (p=0.000 n=6+5)
CodeUnmarshal-8         11.0ms ± 0%     9.8ms ± 0%  -11.45%  (p=0.002 n=6+6)
CodeUnmarshalReuse-8    10.3ms ± 0%     9.0ms ± 0%  -12.72%  (p=0.004 n=5+6)
UnmarshalString-8        104ns ± 0%      92ns ± 0%  -11.35%  (p=0.002 n=6+6)
UnmarshalFloat64-8      93.2ns ± 0%    87.6ns ± 0%   -6.01%  (p=0.010 n=6+4)
UnmarshalInt64-8        74.5ns ± 0%    71.5ns ± 0%   -3.91%  (p=0.000 n=5+6)

name                  old speed      new speed      delta
CodeDecoder-8          189MB/s ± 1%   214MB/s ± 0%  +13.50%  (p=0.002 n=6+6)
UnicodeDecoder-8      40.9MB/s ± 0%  49.5MB/s ± 0%  +20.96%  (p=0.002 n=6+6)
CodeUnmarshal-8        176MB/s ± 0%   199MB/s ± 0%  +12.93%  (p=0.002 n=6+6)

Updates #28923.

Change-Id: I7a5e2aef51bd4ddf2004aad24210f6f50e01eaeb
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/151042
Run-TryBot: Daniel Martí <29bf28b42a938ace12a5819da4ed4ba03d82f315@mvdan.cc>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <66cb808b70d30c07676d5e946fee83fd561249e5@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <ae9783c0b0efc69cd85ab025ddd17aa44cdc4aa5@golang.org>

coreos/go-json