This is pretty much a generalisation of the use_nil option to support an
arbitrary atom.

The `val` variable is a register value that we need to be able to return
at any time from `decode_iter`. If it happened that a yield was
triggered while processing trailing whitespace the lack of persistance
caused decode to return a term intialized from a random integer value.
Obviously the Erlang VM did not enjoy this.

Thanks to @michalpalka for the report.

Fixes #66

This implements the `use_nil` option as discussed on issue #64. Passing
the atom `use_nil` as an option to both encode and decode will replace
the atom `null` with `nil` when decoding and encode `nil` as `null` when
encoding values.

Fixes #64
Fixes #68

This patch adds initial support for decoding/encoding to/from the new
maps data type.

I'd like to thank Jihyun Yu (yjh0502) for the initial versions of this
work.

This adds a configurable limit on the number of bytes consumed by
the decoder before yielding back to the Erlang VM. This is to avoid the
infamous scheduler collapse issues.

The `jiffy:decode/2` now takes an option `{bytes_per_iter,
pos_integer()}` that controls the yield frequency. The default value is
2048.

This is ground work to allow Jiffy to yield back to the scheduler.
Creating a decoder resource will allow for the necessary state to be
carried across NIF function invocations.

A single quote input was causing segfaults due to sneaking past the
string termination logic. This patch corrects that lapse in conditional
by only parsing strings where a closing quote was found. All other
strings are rejected as invalid.

Big thanks to Jean-Charles Campagne (@jccampagne) for reporting the
issue.

My truth table was a bit busted for extreme value doubles.

The encoder can now return \u escaped unicode data instead of leaving
it as UTF-8 byte sequences. This done like so:

    Eshell V5.8.3  (abort with ^G)
    1> jiffy:encode(<<240, 144, 129, 128>>, [uescape]).
    <<"\"\\uD800\\uDC40\"">>

The encode and decode functions now return the value directly without
being wrapped in a tuple on success. If there is an error, it is
thrown. This is to more closely match the semantics of term_to_binary
and binary_to_term.

Feed the lawyers.

Any number that can't be decoded in C is now passed back
to Erlang for decoding.

Large numbers passed to the encoder will make it through
and be processed in Erlang after the main encoding
process.

* Refs became atoms to make sure they can live across calls
  to the NIF functions.
* Initialized curr in decode so that I'm no longer pushing
  random values into the Erlang VM.

Passes all eep0018 tests.