commit f1d60a53845d2efeccdb61bebf6ee8df94df16d4
author Fredrik Lundh <fredrik@pythonware.com> Mon May 22 16:29:30 2006 +0000
committer Fredrik Lundh <fredrik@pythonware.com> Mon May 22 16:29:30 2006 +0000
tree e94e4f8352ee740ad313550f1a3b7863c28c441c
parent d82c3105cced4ef0b8d99f1703dda4c4bf4cc0b5

needforspeed: speed up unicode repeat, unicode string copy

Objects/unicodeobject.c

diff --git a/Objects/unicodeobject.c b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
index 7d11f7d..6f04a6d 100644
--- a/Objects/unicodeobject.c
+++ b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
@@ -5898,10 +5898,13 @@
 
     p = u->str;
 
-    while (len-- > 0) {
-        Py_UNICODE_COPY(p, str->str, str->length);
-        p += str->length;
-    }
+    if (str->length == 1 && len > 0) {
+        Py_UNICODE_FILL(p, str->str[0], len);
+    } else
+        while (len-- > 0) {
+            Py_UNICODE_COPY(p, str->str, str->length);
+            p += str->length;
+        }
 
     return (PyObject*) u;
 }