[Patches] [ python-Patches-430846 ] faster string-decoding in base64.py

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Patches item #430846, was updated on 2001-06-06 14:14
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Category: library
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 3
Submitted By: Peter Schneider-Kamp (nowonder)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: faster string-decoding in base64.py

Initial Comment:
This addresses bug #419390 by anthonybaxter.

Instead of wrapping a string-to-be-decoded into a
StringIO class and using base64.decode use
binascii.a2b_base64 directly.

Speedup for big files is over 10 times (on Linux x86
anyway).

If uncontroversial I'll check it in.

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