Denesting of functions definitions.
Fix of parseintperf

The code was generating random values between 0 and 2^31-1 instead of 0 and 2^32-1 as the other implementations.
Prevent constant propagation in fib microbenchmark
Prevent constant propagation in fib microbenchmark
Additional colour resets for the ASCII logo
Documenting the type promotion used by `merge()`

Behaviour present since #8883.
Merge pull request #9003 from ninjin/nin/asciilogo_colour

RFC: Additional colour resets for the ASCII logo
Merge pull request #8847 from pabloferz/pf/perf

Microbenchmarks fixes (C, R, Octave)
Documentation: add info about argument to `jl_breakpoint`
Merge pull request #9002 from ninjin/nin/merge_doc

RFC: Documenting the type promotion used by `merge()`
fix #9001
tweak inline parser