[issue14923] Even faster UTF-8 decoding

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

> However, if the continuation byte check to do the simplest way ((ch) >= 
> 0x80 && (ch) < 0xC0), this has the same effect (speed up to +45%) on 
> AMD Athlon.

Doesn't produce any significant speedup on Intel Core i5-2500.

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