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e9d93141 - make "dec" and ryu functions faster and simpler (#51273)

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make "dec" and ryu functions faster and simpler (#51273) We had some common code in `Ryu.append_c_digits` that can be combined with Base logic for the same thing. But it turns out all of this duplicated code in Ryu seems to just make it run slightly slower in most cases. The old version had many more branches to check, even though often numbers are small, so only the last check is meaningful. But the assumption that it would be faster even if all of them were used also seems to not hold up in practice. Particularly for a function like `append_nine_digits` which unrolls completely, but the complicated version has slightly more data dependencies because of they way it is written. Similarly, we replace `unsafe_copy` with `@inbounds[]`, since this is better for the optimizer, which doesn't need to treat this operation as an unknown reference escape. Lastly, we use the append_nine_digits trick from Ryu to make printing of arbitrary big numbers much faster. ``` julia> @btime string(typemax(Int128)) 402.345 ns (2 allocations: 120 bytes) # before 151.139 ns (2 allocations: 120 bytes) # after ```
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