[issue12027] Optimize import this (patch to make it 10x faster)

[Marc-Andre Lemburg]

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

STINNER Victor wrote:
> 
> New submission from STINNER Victor <victor.stinner at haypocalc.com>:
> 
> Patch to optimize this: make it 10 times faster.
> 
> Try attached benchmark script. On a debug build I got the following results:
>  * original: 299.8 ms
>  * patched: 23.2 ms
> 
> I expected a factor of 10 because it uses a C implementation of rot13 instead of an hand made Python implementation.

It's a bit late for an April 1st patch, but +1 for the fun of it :-)

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