Merge pull request #1160 from iex-rs/efficient-position

Optimize position search in error path

Cargo.toml

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ rust-version = "1.56"
 [dependencies]
 indexmap = { version = "2.2.3", optional = true }
 itoa = "1.0"
+memchr = { version = "2", default-features = false }
 ryu = "1.0"
 serde = { version = "1.0.194", default-features = false }
 
@@ -45,7 +46,7 @@ features = ["raw_value"]
 [features]
 default = ["std"]
 
-std = ["serde/std"]
+std = ["memchr/std", "serde/std"]
 
 # Provide integration for heap-allocated collections without depending on the
 # rest of the Rust standard library.

src/read.rs

@@ -415,19 +415,14 @@ impl<'a> SliceRead<'a> {
     }
 
     fn position_of_index(&self, i: usize) -> Position {
-        let mut position = Position { line: 1, column: 0 };
-        for ch in &self.slice[..i] {
-            match *ch {
-                b'\n' => {
-                    position.line += 1;
-                    position.column = 0;
-                }
-                _ => {
-                    position.column += 1;
-                }
-            }
+        let start_of_line = match memchr::memrchr(b'\n', &self.slice[..i]) {
+            Some(position) => position + 1,
+            None => 0,
+        };
+        Position {
+            line: 1 + memchr::memchr_iter(b'\n', &self.slice[..start_of_line]).count(),
+            column: i - start_of_line,
         }
-        position
     }
 
     /// The big optimization here over IoRead is that if the string contains no