Tested the performance with:
> time cmake -DJSON_SOURCE_PATH=src/secp256k1/src/wycheproof/ecdsa_secp256k1_sha256_bitcoin_test.json -DHEADER_PATH=build/after/ecdsa_secp256k1_sha256_bitcoin_test.json -P cmake/script/GenerateHeaderFromJson.cmake
Before:
> 3.57s user 6.01s system 94% cpu 10.136 total
After:
> 0.17s user 0.01s system 98% cpu 0.187 total
Replaced multiple file writes with a single string template write.
The raw content is first grouped into 8 byte chunks, followed by another regex replace which wraps them in `std::byte`.
Tested the output with `diff -w` and they're the same - only whitespace differences because slightly different source formatting.
Tested the performance with:
> time cmake -DRAW_SOURCE_PATH=src/bench/data/block413567.raw -DHEADER_PATH=build/after/block413567.raw.h -DRAW_NAMESPACE=benchmark::data -P cmake/script/GenerateHeaderFromRaw.cmake
Before:
> 15.41s user 23.06s system 97% cpu 39.593 total
After:
> 0.77s user 0.06s system 97% cpu 0.849 total
faecca9a85 test: Use span for raw data (MarcoFalke)
fac973647d test: Use string_view for json_tests (MarcoFalke)
Pull request description:
The build system converts raw data into a C++ header file for tests.
This change modernizes the code to use the convenience wrappers `std::span` and `std::string_view`, so that redundant copies can be avoided.
ACKs for top commit:
fjahr:
re-ACK faecca9a85
TheCharlatan:
ACK faecca9a85
stickies-v:
ACK faecca9a85
hebasto:
ACK faecca9a85, I have reviewed the code and the generated headers.
Tree-SHA512: 1f4951c54aff11ba27c41fb70f2821bdb79e06ca0abae734b970bd0d64dda9d8cced824a891fd51b3e9d4e5715ee9eb49ed5d369010a45eca7c3bec9f8641235
This change allows to drop brittle sizeof calls in favor of the
std::span::size method.
Other improvements include:
* Use of a namespace to mark test and bench data
* Use of the modern std::byte
* Drop of a no longer used std::vector copy and the bench/data module