As recommended, an `internal/assert` package was added with a reduced set of assertions. All tests were then refactored to use the internal assertions. When more complex assertions were used, they have been rewritten using logic and the simplified assertions.
Fancy formatting for failures was omitted. The `internal/assert/assertions.diff` function could be overwritten for better formatting. That is where diff libraries are used in other test suites.
Refs: #872
Co-authored-by: Alex Mikitik <alex.mikitik@oracle.com>
* Use pointers instead of copying around ast.Node
Node is a 56B struct that is constantly in the hot path. Passing nodes
around by copy had a cost that started to add up. This change replaces
them by pointers. Using unsafe pointer arithmetic and converting
sibling/child indexes to relative offsets, it removes the need to carry
around a pointer to the root of the tree. This saves 8B per Node. This
space will be used to store an extra []byte slice to provide contextual
error handling on all nodes, including the ones whose data is different
than the raw input (for example: strings with escaped characters), while
staying under the size of a cache line.
* Remove conditional
* Add Raw to track range in data for parsed values
* Simplify reference tracking
Alex Mikitik