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parsers: add a function to efficiently lowercase ASCII strings

We need a way to efficiently lowercase ASCII strings. For example, 'hg status'
needs to build up the fold map -- a map from a canonical case (for OS X,
lowercase) to the actual case of each file and directory in the dirstate.

The current way we do that is to try decoding to ASCII and then calling
lower() on the string, labeled 'orig' below:

    str.decode('ascii')
    return str.lower()

This is pretty inefficient, and it turns out we can do much better.

I also tested out a condition-based approach, labeled 'cond' below:

    (c >= 'A' && c <= 'Z') ? (c + ('a' - 'A')) : c

'cond' turned out to be slower in all cases. A 256-byte lookup table with
invalid values for everything past 127 performed similarly, but this was less
verbose.

On OS X 10.9 with LLVM version 6.0 (clang-600.0.51), the asciilower function
was run against two corpuses.

Corpus 1 (list of files from real-world repo, > 100k files):
orig:   wall 0.428567 comb 0.430000 user 0.430000 sys 0.000000 (best of 24)
cond:   wall 0.077204 comb 0.070000 user 0.070000 sys 0.000000 (best of 100)
lookup: wall 0.060714 comb 0.060000 user 0.060000 sys 0.000000 (best of 100)

Corpus 2 (mozilla-central, 113k files):
orig:   wall 0.238406 comb 0.240000 user 0.240000 sys 0.000000 (best of 42)
cond:   wall 0.040779 comb 0.040000 user 0.040000 sys 0.000000 (best of 100)
lookup: wall 0.037623 comb 0.040000 user 0.040000 sys 0.000000 (best of 100)

On a Linux server-class machine with GCC 4.4.6 20120305 (Red Hat 4.4.6-4):

Corpus 1 (real-world repo, > 100k files):
orig:   wall 0.260899 comb 0.260000 user 0.260000 sys 0.000000 (best of 38)
cond:   wall 0.054818 comb 0.060000 user 0.060000 sys 0.000000 (best of 100)
lookup: wall 0.048489 comb 0.050000 user 0.050000 sys 0.000000 (best of 100)

Corpus 2 (mozilla-central, 113k files):
orig:   wall 0.153082 comb 0.150000 user 0.150000 sys 0.000000 (best of 65)
cond:   wall 0.031007 comb 0.040000 user 0.040000 sys 0.000000 (best of 100)
lookup: wall 0.028793 comb 0.030000 user 0.030000 sys 0.000000 (best of 100)

SSE instructions might help even more, but I didn't experiment with those.

[This file is here for historical purposes, all recent contributors
should appear in the changelog directly]

Andrea Arcangeli <andrea at suse.de>
Thomas Arendsen Hein <thomas at intevation.de>
Goffredo Baroncelli <kreijack at libero.it>
Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix at mulix.org>
Mikael Berthe <mikael at lilotux.net>
Benoit Boissinot <bboissin at gmail.com>
Brendan Cully <brendan at kublai.com>
Vincent Danjean <vdanjean.ml at free.fr>
Jake Edge <jake at edge2.net>
Michael Fetterman <michael.fetterman at intel.com>
Edouard Gomez <ed.gomez at free.fr>
Eric Hopper <hopper at omnifarious.org>
Alecs King <alecsk at gmail.com>
Volker Kleinfeld <Volker.Kleinfeld at gmx.de>
Vadim Lebedev <vadim at mbdsys.com>
Christopher Li <hg at chrisli.org>
Chris Mason <mason at suse.com>
Colin McMillen <mcmillen at cs.cmu.edu>
Wojciech Milkowski <wmilkowski at interia.pl>
Chad Netzer <chad.netzer at gmail.com>
Bryan O'Sullivan <bos at serpentine.com>
Vicent Seguí Pascual <vseguip at gmail.com>
Sean Perry <shaleh at speakeasy.net>
Nguyen Anh Quynh <aquynh at gmail.com>
Ollivier Robert <roberto at keltia.freenix.fr>
Alexander Schremmer <alex at alexanderweb.de>
Arun Sharma <arun at sharma-home.net>
Josef "Jeff" Sipek <jeffpc at optonline.net>
Kevin Smith <yarcs at qualitycode.com>
TK Soh <teekaysoh at yahoo.com>
Radoslaw Szkodzinski <astralstorm at gorzow.mm.pl>
Samuel Tardieu <sam at rfc1149.net>
K Thananchayan <thananck at yahoo.com>
Andrew Thompson <andrewkt at aktzero.com>
Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at mellanox.co.il>
Rafael Villar Burke <pachi at mmn-arquitectos.com>
Tristan Wibberley <tristan at wibberley.org>
Mark Williamson <mark.williamson at cl.cam.ac.uk>