util/CharUtil: add IsWhitespaceFast()

2 files changed, 16 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/src/util/CharUtil.hxx b/src/util/CharUtil.hxx
index 3c1959b22..9cb852524 100644
--- a/src/util/CharUtil.hxx
+++ b/src/util/CharUtil.hxx
@@ -58,6 +58,19 @@ IsWhitespaceNotNull(const char ch)
 	return ch > 0 && ch <= 0x20;
 }
 
+/**
+ * Is the given character whitespace?  This calls the faster one of
+ * IsWhitespaceOrNull() or IsWhitespaceNotNull().  Use this if you
+ * want the fastest implementation, and you don't care if a null byte
+ * matches.
+ */
+constexpr
+static inline bool
+IsWhitespaceFast(const char ch)
+{
+	return IsWhitespaceOrNull(ch);
+}
+
 constexpr
 static inline bool
 IsPrintableASCII(char ch)
diff --git a/src/util/Tokenizer.cxx b/src/util/Tokenizer.cxx
index d839b6ce6..306a90074 100644
--- a/src/util/Tokenizer.cxx
+++ b/src/util/Tokenizer.cxx
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ Tokenizer::NextWord(Error &error)
 	   whitespace or end-of-string */
 
 	while (*++input != 0) {
-		if (IsWhitespaceOrNull(*input)) {
+		if (IsWhitespaceFast(*input)) {
 			/* a whitespace: the word ends here */
 			*input = 0;
 			/* skip all following spaces, too */
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ Tokenizer::NextUnquoted(Error &error)
 	   whitespace or end-of-string */
 
 	while (*++input != 0) {
-		if (IsWhitespaceOrNull(*input)) {
+		if (IsWhitespaceFast(*input)) {
 			/* a whitespace: the word ends here */
 			*input = 0;
 			/* skip all following spaces, too */
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ Tokenizer::NextString(Error &error)
 	   line) */
 
 	++input;
-	if (!IsWhitespaceOrNull(*input)) {
+	if (!IsWhitespaceFast(*input)) {
 		error.Set(tokenizer_domain,
 			  "Space expected after closing '\"'");
 		return nullptr;