Issue #4868: utf-8, utf-16 and latin1 decoding are now 2x to 4x faster. The
common cases are optimized thanks to a dedicated fast path and a moderate
amount of loop unrolling.
This will especially help text I/O (we already register a 30% speedup on large
reads on the io-c branch).
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 7832505..16e1edd 100644
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Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #4868: utf-8, utf-16 and latin1 decoding are now 2x to 4x faster. The
+ common cases are optimized thanks to a dedicated fast path and a moderate
+ amount of loop unrolling.
+
- Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e.
collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without
destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by