This takes the previous alternation optimisation and applies it to all
the alternation blocks instead of just the few instructions at the
start.
By generating a trie of instructions, all logically equivalent
instructions will be consolidated into a single node, allowing the
engine to avoid checking the same thing multiple times.
For instance, given the pattern /abc|ac|ab/, this optimisation would
generate the following tree:
- a
| - b
| | - c
| | | - <accept>
| | - <accept>
| - c
| | - <accept>
which will attempt to match 'a' or 'b' only once, and would also limit
the number of backtrackings performed in case alternatives fails to
match.
This optimisation is currently gated behind a simple cost model that
estimates the number of instructions generated, which is pessimistic for
small patterns, though the change in performance in such patterns is not
particularly large.
This patch adds the `USING_AK_GLOBALLY` macro which is enabled by
default, but can be overridden by build flags.
This is a step towards integrating Jakt and AK types.
This will be caught by new test cases: when the initial chunk is empty,
a dereference before calling operator++ on the iterator will crash as
the initial chunk's size is never checked.
Previously, although we were taking a moved chunk, we still copied it
into our chunk list. This makes DisjointChunk compatible with containers
that don't have a copy constructor but a move constructor.
This is a raffinement of 49cbd4dcca.
Previously, the container was scanned to compute the size in the unhappy
path. Now, using `all_of` happy and unhappy path should be fast.
DisjointChunks<T> provides a nice interface over multiple sequential
Vector<T>'s, allowing the user to iterate over/index into/slice from
said buffers as if they were a single contiguous buffer.
To work with views on such objects, DisjointSpans<T> is provided, which
has the same behaviour but does not own the underlying objects.
