parsers: use a lookup table to convert hex to binary
authorSiddharth Agarwal <sid0@fb.com>
Sat, 07 Sep 2013 00:59:24 -0700
changeset 19718 d69e06724b96
parent 19717 6031fe568cd0
child 19719 2f9d5c5256ea
parsers: use a lookup table to convert hex to binary This is a hotspot for parse_manifest. With this patch, for a 20 MB, 200,000 file manifest, parse_manifest goes down from 0.153 seconds to 0.116.
mercurial/parsers.c
--- a/mercurial/parsers.c	Fri Sep 06 23:05:33 2013 -0700
+++ b/mercurial/parsers.c	Sat Sep 07 00:59:24 2013 -0700
@@ -14,16 +14,32 @@
 
 #include "util.h"
 
+static int8_t hextable[256] = {
+	-1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1,
+	-1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1,
+	-1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1,
+	 0,  1,  2,  3,  4,  5,  6,  7,  8,  9, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, /* 0-9 */
+	-1, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, /* A-F */
+	-1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1,
+	-1, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, /* a-f */
+	-1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1,
+	-1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1,
+	-1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1,
+	-1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1,
+	-1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1,
+	-1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1,
+	-1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1,
+	-1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1,
+	-1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1
+};
+
 static inline int hexdigit(const char *p, Py_ssize_t off)
 {
-	char c = p[off];
+	int8_t val = hextable[(unsigned char)p[off]];
 
-	if (c >= '0' && c <= '9')
-		return c - '0';
-	if (c >= 'a' && c <= 'f')
-		return c - 'a' + 10;
-	if (c >= 'A' && c <= 'F')
-		return c - 'A' + 10;
+	if (val >= 0) {
+		return val;
+	}
 
 	PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError, "input contains non-hex character");
 	return 0;