Speed up adding literal chars when the buffer is known to be one-byte

src/parsing/scanner.cc

 // Copyright 2011 the V8 project authors. All rights reserved.
 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
 // found in the LICENSE file.
 
 // Features shared by parsing and pre-parsing scanners.
 
 #include "src/parsing/scanner.h"
 
 #include <stdint.h>
 
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     if (c0_ > kMaxAscii) {
       HandleLeadSurrogate();
       break;
     }
     if (c0_ < 0 || c0_ == '\n' || c0_ == '\r') return Token::ILLEGAL;
     if (c0_ == quote) {
       literal.Complete();
       Advance<false, false>();
       return Token::STRING;
     }
-    uc32 c = c0_;
+    char c = static_cast<char>(c0_);
     if (c == '\\') break;
     Advance<false, false>();
     AddLiteralChar(c);
   }
 
   while (c0_ != quote && c0_ >= 0
          && !unicode_cache_->IsLineTerminator(c0_)) {
     uc32 c = c0_;
     Advance();
     if (c == '\\') {
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   return Token::FUTURE_STRICT_RESERVED_WORD ==
          KeywordOrIdentifierToken(string->raw_data(), string->length(), false);
 }
 
 
 Token::Value Scanner::ScanIdentifierOrKeyword() {
   DCHECK(unicode_cache_->IsIdentifierStart(c0_));
   LiteralScope literal(this);
   if (IsInRange(c0_, 'a', 'z')) {
     do {
-      uc32 first_char = c0_;
+      char first_char = static_cast<char>(c0_);
       Advance<false, false>();
       AddLiteralChar(first_char);
     } while (IsInRange(c0_, 'a', 'z'));
 
     if (IsDecimalDigit(c0_) || IsInRange(c0_, 'A', 'Z') || c0_ == '_' ||
         c0_ == '$') {
       // Identifier starting with lowercase.
-      uc32 first_char = c0_;
+      char first_char = static_cast<char>(c0_);
       Advance<false, false>();
       AddLiteralChar(first_char);
       while (IsAsciiIdentifier(c0_)) {
-        uc32 first_char = c0_;
+        char first_char = static_cast<char>(c0_);
         Advance<false, false>();
         AddLiteralChar(first_char);
       }
       if (c0_ <= kMaxAscii && c0_ != '\\') {
         literal.Complete();
         return Token::IDENTIFIER;
       }
     } else if (c0_ <= kMaxAscii && c0_ != '\\') {
       // Only a-z+: could be a keyword or identifier.
       literal.Complete();
       Vector<const uint8_t> chars = next_.literal_chars->one_byte_literal();
       return KeywordOrIdentifierToken(chars.start(), chars.length(), false);
     }
 
     HandleLeadSurrogate();
   } else if (IsInRange(c0_, 'A', 'Z') || c0_ == '_' || c0_ == '$') {
     do {
-      uc32 first_char = c0_;
+      char first_char = static_cast<char>(c0_);
       Advance<false, false>();
       AddLiteralChar(first_char);
     } while (IsAsciiIdentifier(c0_));
 
     if (c0_ <= kMaxAscii && c0_ != '\\') {
       literal.Complete();
       return Token::IDENTIFIER;
     }
 
     HandleLeadSurrogate();
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     backing_store_.Add(static_cast<uint8_t>((one_byte_length >> 7) | 0x80u));
   }
   backing_store_.Add(static_cast<uint8_t>(one_byte_length & 0x7f));
 
   backing_store_.AddBlock(bytes);
   return backing_store_.EndSequence().start();
 }
 
 }  // namespace internal
 }  // namespace v8