Introduce a custom Catch2 reporter for tests/test_with_catch that prints a
simple one-line status for each test case as it starts and ends, and wire the
cpptest CMake target to invoke test_with_catch with -r progress. This makes
it much easier to see where the embedded/interpreter test binary is spending
its time in CI logs, and in particular to pinpoint which test case is stuck
when the free-threading builds hang.
Compared to adding ad hoc timeouts around potentially infinite busy-wait
loops in individual tests, a progress reporter is a more general and robust
approach: it gives visibility into all tests (including future ones) without
changing their behavior, and turns otherwise opaque 90-minute timeouts into
locatable issues in the Catch output.
* Avoid heap allocation for function calls with a small number of arguments
We don't have access to llvm::SmallVector or similar, but given the
limited subset of the `std::vector` API that
`function_call::args{,_convert}` need and the "reserve-then-fill"
usage pattern, it is relatively straightforward to implement custom
containers that get the job done.
Seems to improves time to call the collatz function in
pybind/pybind11_benchmark significantly; numbers are a little noisy
but there's a clear improvement from "about 60 ns per call" to "about
45 ns per call" on my machine (M4 Max Mac), as measured with
`timeit.repeat('collatz(4)', 'from pybind11_benchmark import
collatz')`.
* clang-tidy
* more clang-tidy
* clang-tidy NOLINTBEGIN/END instead of NOLINTNEXTLINE
* forgot to increase inline size after removing std::variant
* constexpr arg_vector_small_size, use move instead of swap to hopefully clarify second_pass_convert
* rename test_embed to test_low_level
* rename test_low_level to test_with_catch
* Be careful to NOINLINE slow paths
* rename array/vector members to iarray/hvector. Move comment per request. Add static_asserts for our untagged union implementation per request.
* drop is_standard_layout assertions; see https://github.com/pybind/pybind11/pull/5824#issuecomment-3308616072
