[m-rev.] for review: add uint->uintN conversions

[Zoltan Somogyi]

2021-07-01 00:16 GMT+10:00 "Julien Fischer" <jfischer at opturion.com>:
> That said, I wonder if there would be much benefit in lifting the
> test into base_string_to_int and adding unsafe_base_digit_to_int/3
> (i.e. do the test once per string, rather than once per character)?

The attached diff implements this. For review by Julien.

I have not attempted to measure any speedup, since my laptop
cannot reliably do so.

Zoltan.
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