[issue11303] b'x'.decode('latin1') is much slower than b'x'.decode('latin-1')

[Marc-Andre Lemburg]

Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> added the comment:

Marc-Andre Lemburg wrote:
> 
> I don't know who changed the encoding's package normalize_encoding() function (wasn't me), but it's a really slow implementation.
> 
> The original version used the .translate() method which is a lot faster.

I guess that's one of the reasons why Alexander found such a dramatic
difference between the shortcut variant of the names and the ones
going through the registry.

> I'll open a new issue for that part.

issue11322

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title: b'x'.decode('latin1') is much slower than b'x'.decode('latin-1') -> b'x'.decode('latin1') is much slower than	b'x'.decode('latin-1')

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