[issue41330] Inefficient error-handle for CJK encodings

[Ma Lin]

New submission from Ma Lin <malincns at 163.com>:

CJK encode/decode functions only have three error-handler fast-paths:
    replace
    ignore
    strict  
See the code: [1][2]

If use other built-in error-handlers, need to get the error-handler object, and call it with an Unicode Exception argument. See the code: [3]

But the error-handler object is not cached, it needs to be looked up from a dict every time, which is very inefficient.


Another possible optimization is to write fast-path for common error-handlers, Python has these built-in error-handlers:

    strict
    replace
    ignore
    backslashreplace
    xmlcharrefreplace
    namereplace
    surrogateescape
    surrogatepass (only for utf-8/utf-16/utf-32 family)

For example, maybe `xmlcharrefreplace` is heavily used in Web application, it can be implemented as a fast-path, so that no need to call the error-handler object every time.
Just like the `xmlcharrefreplace` fast-path in `PyUnicode_EncodeCharmap` [4].

[1] encode function:
https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/v3.9.0b4/Modules/cjkcodecs/multibytecodec.c#L192

[2] decode function:
https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/v3.9.0b4/Modules/cjkcodecs/multibytecodec.c#L347

[3] `call_error_callback` function:
https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/v3.9.0b4/Modules/cjkcodecs/multibytecodec.c#L82

[4] `xmlcharrefreplace` fast-path in `PyUnicode_EncodeCharmap`:
https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/v3.9.0b4/Objects/unicodeobject.c#L8662

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components: Unicode
messages: 373871
nosy: ezio.melotti, malin, vstinner
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Inefficient error-handle for CJK encodings
type: performance
versions: Python 3.10

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