[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:

M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> Raymond Hettinger wrote:
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>> Raymond Hettinger <rhettinger at users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:
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>>> If you agree, Raymond, I'll backport the patch.
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>> Yes.  That will address Antoine's legitimate concern about making other backports harder, and it will get all the Python's to use the canonical spelling.
> 
> Ok, I'll backport both the normalization and Alexander's patch.

Hmm, I wanted to start working on this just now and then saw
Georg's mail about the hg transition today, so I guess the
backport will have to wait until Monday... will be interesting
to see whether hg is really so much better than svn ;-)

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