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+//! Operations on ASCII `[u8]`.
+
+use crate::mem;
+
+#[lang = "slice_u8"]
+#[cfg(not(test))]
+impl [u8] {
+    /// Checks if all bytes in this slice are within the ASCII range.
+    #[stable(feature = "ascii_methods_on_intrinsics", since = "1.23.0")]
+    #[inline]
+    pub fn is_ascii(&self) -> bool {
+        is_ascii(self)
+    }
+
+    /// Checks that two slices are an ASCII case-insensitive match.
+    ///
+    /// Same as `to_ascii_lowercase(a) == to_ascii_lowercase(b)`,
+    /// but without allocating and copying temporaries.
+    #[stable(feature = "ascii_methods_on_intrinsics", since = "1.23.0")]
+    #[inline]
+    pub fn eq_ignore_ascii_case(&self, other: &[u8]) -> bool {
+        self.len() == other.len() && self.iter().zip(other).all(|(a, b)| a.eq_ignore_ascii_case(b))
+    }
+
+    /// Converts this slice to its ASCII upper case equivalent in-place.
+    ///
+    /// ASCII letters 'a' to 'z' are mapped to 'A' to 'Z',
+    /// but non-ASCII letters are unchanged.
+    ///
+    /// To return a new uppercased value without modifying the existing one, use
+    /// [`to_ascii_uppercase`].
+    ///
+    /// [`to_ascii_uppercase`]: #method.to_ascii_uppercase
+    #[stable(feature = "ascii_methods_on_intrinsics", since = "1.23.0")]
+    #[inline]
+    pub fn make_ascii_uppercase(&mut self) {
+        for byte in self {
+            byte.make_ascii_uppercase();
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// Converts this slice to its ASCII lower case equivalent in-place.
+    ///
+    /// ASCII letters 'A' to 'Z' are mapped to 'a' to 'z',
+    /// but non-ASCII letters are unchanged.
+    ///
+    /// To return a new lowercased value without modifying the existing one, use
+    /// [`to_ascii_lowercase`].
+    ///
+    /// [`to_ascii_lowercase`]: #method.to_ascii_lowercase
+    #[stable(feature = "ascii_methods_on_intrinsics", since = "1.23.0")]
+    #[inline]
+    pub fn make_ascii_lowercase(&mut self) {
+        for byte in self {
+            byte.make_ascii_lowercase();
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+/// Returns `true` if any byte in the word `v` is nonascii (>= 128). Snarfed
+/// from `../str/mod.rs`, which does something similar for utf8 validation.
+#[inline]
+fn contains_nonascii(v: usize) -> bool {
+    const NONASCII_MASK: usize = 0x80808080_80808080u64 as usize;
+    (NONASCII_MASK & v) != 0
+}
+
+/// Optimized ASCII test that will use usize-at-a-time operations instead of
+/// byte-at-a-time operations (when possible).
+///
+/// The algorithm we use here is pretty simple. If `s` is too short, we just
+/// check each byte and be done with it. Otherwise:
+///
+/// - Read the first word with an unaligned load.
+/// - Align the pointer, read subsequent words until end with aligned loads.
+/// - Read the last `usize` from `s` with an unaligned load.
+///
+/// If any of these loads produces something for which `contains_nonascii`
+/// (above) returns true, then we know the answer is false.
+#[inline]
+fn is_ascii(s: &[u8]) -> bool {
+    const USIZE_SIZE: usize = mem::size_of::<usize>();
+
+    let len = s.len();
+    let align_offset = s.as_ptr().align_offset(USIZE_SIZE);
+
+    // If we wouldn't gain anything from the word-at-a-time implementation, fall
+    // back to a scalar loop.
+    //
+    // We also do this for architectures where `size_of::<usize>()` isn't
+    // sufficient alignment for `usize`, because it's a weird edge case.
+    if len < USIZE_SIZE || len < align_offset || USIZE_SIZE < mem::align_of::<usize>() {
+        return s.iter().all(|b| b.is_ascii());
+    }
+
+    // We always read the first word unaligned, which means `align_offset` is
+    // 0, we'd read the same value again for the aligned read.
+    let offset_to_aligned = if align_offset == 0 { USIZE_SIZE } else { align_offset };
+
+    let start = s.as_ptr();
+    // SAFETY: We verify `len < USIZE_SIZE` above.
+    let first_word = unsafe { (start as *const usize).read_unaligned() };
+
+    if contains_nonascii(first_word) {
+        return false;
+    }
+    // We checked this above, somewhat implicitly. Note that `offset_to_aligned`
+    // is either `align_offset` or `USIZE_SIZE`, both of are explicitly checked
+    // above.
+    debug_assert!(offset_to_aligned <= len);
+
+    // SAFETY: word_ptr is the (properly aligned) usize ptr we use to read the
+    // middle chunk of the slice.
+    let mut word_ptr = unsafe { start.add(offset_to_aligned) as *const usize };
+
+    // `byte_pos` is the byte index of `word_ptr`, used for loop end checks.
+    let mut byte_pos = offset_to_aligned;
+
+    // Paranoia check about alignment, since we're about to do a bunch of
+    // unaligned loads. In practice this should be impossible barring a bug in
+    // `align_offset` though.
+    debug_assert_eq!((word_ptr as usize) % mem::align_of::<usize>(), 0);
+
+    // Read subsequent words until the last aligned word, excluding the last
+    // aligned word by itself to be done in tail check later, to ensure that
+    // tail is always one `usize` at most to extra branch `byte_pos == len`.
+    while byte_pos < len - USIZE_SIZE {
+        debug_assert!(
+            // Sanity check that the read is in bounds
+            (word_ptr as usize + USIZE_SIZE) <= (start.wrapping_add(len) as usize) &&
+            // And that our assumptions about `byte_pos` hold.
+            (word_ptr as usize) - (start as usize) == byte_pos
+        );
+
+        // SAFETY: We know `word_ptr` is properly aligned (because of
+        // `align_offset`), and we know that we have enough bytes between `word_ptr` and the end
+        let word = unsafe { word_ptr.read() };
+        if contains_nonascii(word) {
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        byte_pos += USIZE_SIZE;
+        // SAFETY: We know that `byte_pos <= len - USIZE_SIZE`, which means that
+        // after this `add`, `word_ptr` will be at most one-past-the-end.
+        word_ptr = unsafe { word_ptr.add(1) };
+    }
+
+    // Sanity check to ensure there really is only one `usize` left. This should
+    // be guaranteed by our loop condition.
+    debug_assert!(byte_pos <= len && len - byte_pos <= USIZE_SIZE);
+
+    // SAFETY: This relies on `len >= USIZE_SIZE`, which we check at the start.
+    let last_word = unsafe { (start.add(len - USIZE_SIZE) as *const usize).read_unaligned() };
+
+    !contains_nonascii(last_word)
+}