Even faster counting of digits for error line numbers

compiler/rustc_errors/src/emitter.rs

@@ -1713,18 +1713,8 @@ impl EmitterWriter {
         let max_line_num_len = if self.ui_testing {
             ANONYMIZED_LINE_NUM.len()
         } else {
-            // Instead of using .to_string().len(), we iteratively count the
-            // number of digits to avoid allocation. This strategy has sizable
-            // performance gains over the old string strategy.
-            let mut n = self.get_max_line_num(span, children);
-            let mut num_digits = 0;
-            loop {
-                num_digits += 1;
-                n /= 10;
-                if n == 0 {
-                    break num_digits;
-                }
-            }
+            let n = self.get_max_line_num(span, children);
+            num_decimal_digits(n)
         };
 
         match self.emit_message_default(span, message, code, level, max_line_num_len, false) {
@@ -1952,6 +1942,30 @@ impl FileWithAnnotatedLines {
     }
 }
 
+// instead of taking the String length or dividing by 10 while > 0, we multiply a limit by 10 until
+// we're higher. If the loop isn't exited by the `return`, the last multiplication will wrap, which
+// is OK, because while we cannot fit a higher power of 10 in a usize, the loop will end anyway.
+// This is also why we need the max number of decimal digits within a `usize`.
+fn num_decimal_digits(num: usize) -> usize {
+    #[cfg(target_pointer_width = "64")]
+    const MAX_DIGITS: usize = 20;
+
+    #[cfg(target_pointer_width = "32")]
+    const MAX_DIGITS: usize = 10;
+
+    #[cfg(target_pointer_width = "16")]
+    const MAX_DIGITS: usize = 5;
+
+    let mut lim = 10;
+    for num_digits in 1..MAX_DIGITS {
+        if num < lim {
+            return num_digits;
+        }
+        lim = lim.wrapping_mul(10);
+    }
+    MAX_DIGITS
+}
+
 fn replace_tabs(str: &str) -> String {
     str.replace('\t', "    ")
 }