Changes:

• More consistent naming by changing event_consumer methods from (begin|end)_(list|dict)
  to (begin|end)_(list|dict).
• Add more benchmarks.
• Disable contract checks in release build for improved performance.
• Fix parsing from a pair of InputItererators.
• Add string_parsing_mode options to push_parser to allow parsing strings to string_view.
• Add experimental SSE4.1 and AVX2 integer parsing backends. Enable SWAR integer parsing by default.
• Add limited std::span serialization/deserialization support.

Changes

• Reworked parser internals for increased decoding speed.
• SWAR optimizations for fast integer decoding.
• Switch benchmarks to google/benchmark for more consistent results.
• Add benchmark with arvidn/libtorrent.
• Change gsl-lite to gsl-lite-v1.

Changes

• Add support for std::shared_ptr, std::unique_ptr, std::weak_ptr and raw pointers.
• Add event_connector.
• Add comparison to jimporter/bencode benchmark.

Changes:

• make descriptor_table::get_root const qualified.
• rename conversion_error to bad_conversion.
• rename format_json_to to encode_json_to
• throw bencode::out_of_range instead of std::out_of_range
• add accessor functions to bview similar to the accessor functions of basic_bvalue:
  • at(std::size_t)
  • at(std::string_view)
  • operator[](std::size_t)
  • front()
  • back()
• add bpointer: a bencode pointer similar to json pointers.

Changes:

• Fix invalid output of events::debug_to for lists and dicts.
• Replace macro BENCODE_SERIALIZES_TO_DICT by BENCODE_SERIALIZES_TO_DICT_SORTED
  and BENCODE SERIALIZED_TO_DICT_UNSORTED. serializes_to_dict
  now takes an enum non-type template argument dict_key_order
  to indicate if the dict default iteration order is sorted or not.
• Fix various event producing compilation errors.

Initial release.