src: simplify string_bytes with views

[lemire]

This PR adopts the new string views for latin1/base64/hex encoding/decoding. It should avoid unnecessary copies when the string is not external.

Compared to node 22:

                                                                               confidence improvement   accuracy (*)           (**)          (***)
buffers/buffer-base64-decode-wrapped.js n=32 linesCount=524288 charsPerLine=76        ***    183.12 %  14.24%  15.70%  17.51%
buffers/buffer-base64-decode.js size=8388608 n=32                                     ***    281.40 %  15.47%  17.32%  19.59%
buffers/buffer-base64-encode.js n=32 len=67108864                                              2.75 %  17.37%  19.81% 112.76%
buffers/buffer-base64url-decode.js size=8388608 n=32                                  ***    287.36 % 119.32% 125.94% 134.24%
buffers/buffer-base64url-encode.js n=32 len=67108864                                    *     -8.55 %  17.66% 110.19% 113.26%

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Codecov Report

Attention: Patch coverage is 92.30769% with 2 lines in your changes missing coverage. Please review.

Project coverage is 87.90%. Comparing base (22ea302) to head (7336a55).
Report is 296 commits behind head on main.

Files with missing lines	Patch %	Lines
src/string_bytes.cc	92.30%	0 Missing and 2 partials ⚠️

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src/string_bytes.cc	67.66% <92.30%> (+3.71%)	⬆️

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----------------------------------- PR info ------------------------------------
Title      src: simplify string_bytes with views (#54876)
Author     Daniel Lemire <daniel@lemire.me> (@lemire)
Branch     lemire:simplify_string_bytes_with_views -> nodejs:main
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PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/54876
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[main 52405663d8] src: simplify string_bytes with views
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src: simplify string_bytes with views
PR-URL: #54876

Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>

Reviewed-By: Yagiz Nizipli <yagiz@nizipli.com>

Reviewed-By: Minwoo Jung <nodecorelab@gmail.com>
[detached HEAD f4a3715621] src: simplify string_bytes with views

Author: Daniel Lemire <dlemire@lemire.me>

Date: Tue Sep 10 11:00:08 2024 -0400

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PR-URL: #54876

Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>

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Reviewed-By: Minwoo Jung <nodecorelab@gmail.com>
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Author: Daniel Lemire <dlemire@lemire.me>

Date: Tue Sep 10 11:06:02 2024 -0400

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[anonrig]

@lemire your git config doesn't include your github email address causing the commit-queue to fail. can you update your git config and rebase and force push to this branch?

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Landed in 9f5977f

[lemire]

@anonrig Somehow it landed!!! ❤️

[lemire]

It would not have been possible without @LeszekSwirski.

[RafaelGSS]

It needs a manual backport to v22.x-staging. See #54966 (comment).