[PATCH 6 of 6] parsers: use a lookup table to convert hex to binary

[Siddharth Agarwal]

# HG changeset patch
# User Siddharth Agarwal <sid0 at fb.com>
# Date 1378540764 25200
#      Sat Sep 07 00:59:24 2013 -0700
# Node ID 6638dd23999d66a95ce28816f035a1d051963290
# Parent  8c45bfd4369fc7075fb2a2aca7cea6f492bd7782
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.

diff --git a/mercurial/parsers.c b/mercurial/parsers.c
--- a/mercurial/parsers.c
+++ b/mercurial/parsers.c
@@ -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;