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`findScalarPos` might do repetitive work, even if using simd. For
example, when searching the string `/abcde/fghijk/lm` for the character
`/`, a 16-byte wide search would yield `1000001000000100` but would only
count the first `1` and re-search the remaining of the string.
When testing locally, the difference was quite significative:
```
count scalar
5737 iterations 522.83us per iterations
0 bytes per iteration
worst: 2370us median: 512us stddev: 107.64us
count v2
38333 iterations 78.03us per iterations
0 bytes per iteration
worst: 713us median: 76us stddev: 10.62us
count scalar v2
99565 iterations 29.80us per iterations
0 bytes per iteration
worst: 41us median: 29us stddev: 1.04us
```
Note that `count v2` is a simpler string search, similar to the
remaining version of the simd approach:
```
pub fn countV2(comptime T: type, haystack: []const T, needle: T) usize {
const n = haystack.len;
if (n < 1) return 0;
var count: usize = 0;
for (haystack[0..n]) |item| {
count += @intFromBool(item == needle);
}
return count;
}
```
Which implies the compiler yields some optimized code for a simpler loop
that is more performant than the `findScalarPos`-based approach, hence
the usage of iterative approach for the remaining of the haystack.
Co-authored-by: StAlKeR7779 <stalkek7779@yandex.ru>