[Python-Dev] PEP 393 decode() oddity

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> How serious a problem this is for the Python 3.3 release? I could do the
> optimization, if someone is not working on this already.

I think the people who did the original implementation (Torsten,
Victor, and myself) are done with optimizations. So: contributions are
welcome. I'm not aware of any release-critical performance degradation
(but I'd start with string formatting if I were you).