Implement AltiVec-accelerated IsASCII

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In the same way as TenFourFox does for nsTextFragment, implement in 
string/src/nsReadableUtils.cpp an AltiVec-based scanner. This can be done as a 
first approximation thus:

        fragmentLength = PRUint32(iter.size_forward());
        const PRUnichar* c = iter.get();
        const PRUnichar* fragmentEnd = c + fragmentLength;

>> AltiVec stride goes here

          // for each character in this chunk...
        while ( c < fragmentEnd )
          if ( *c++ & NOT_ASCII )
            return PR_FALSE;
      }

This is likely to gain a lot of performance win, this call is done a lot!

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [e-mail] on 18 Jan 2012 at 12:34

• Blocked on: #154

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In fact, there are two IsASCIIs and one IsUTF8. We should do all three.

Original comment by [e-mail] on 18 Jan 2012 at 12:36