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gh-144264: Speed up Base64 decoding of data containing ignored characters#144265

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gh-144264: Speed up Base64 decoding of data containing ignored characters#144265
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@serhiy-storchaka serhiy-storchaka commented Jan 27, 2026

Try the fast path again after decoding a quad the slow path. Use a bitmap cache for the ignorechars argument.

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Try the fast path again after decoding a quad the slow path.
Use a bitmap cache for the ignorechars argument.
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LGTM

@serhiy-storchaka serhiy-storchaka merged commit 92c0ec2 into python:main Jan 29, 2026
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@serhiy-storchaka serhiy-storchaka deleted the binascii-a2b_base64-ignorechars-speedup branch January 29, 2026 15:33
thunder-coding pushed a commit to thunder-coding/cpython that referenced this pull request Feb 15, 2026
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Try the fast path again after decoding a quad the slow path.
Use a bitmap cache for the ignorechars argument.
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