While profiling parsing, I noticed that scanIdentifier was extremely
hot, and could be optimized: it is responsible for a significant
fraction of scanning and had a lot of unnecessary branching, bounds
checks, and function calls.
This CL implements some of those optimizations, while trying to strike a
balance between optimization and readability. It achieves this by
optimizing for the common case of ASCII identifiers, falling back on the
slower scan when encountering the first non-ASCII character.
Change-Id: If78380004248e3ea75cfc78eb7f38f528124dced
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/308611
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