Add a comment explaining this heuristic.

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Antoine Pitrou 2011-10-13 18:07:37 +02:00
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@ -115,6 +115,9 @@ FASTSEARCH(const STRINGLIB_CHAR* s, Py_ssize_t n,
unsigned char needle;
needle = p[0] & 0xff;
#if STRINGLIB_SIZEOF_CHAR > 1
/* If looking for a multiple of 256, we'd have two
many false positives looking for the '\0' byte in UCS2
and UCS4 representations. */
if (needle != 0)
#endif
return STRINGLIB(fastsearch_memchr_1char)