UNTESTED!!!
This simple two-line patch has been sitting on SF for more than 2 years.
I'm guessing it's because nobody knows how to test it -- I sure don't.
It doesn't look like you can get to this part of the code on Unixish
or Windows systems, so the "how to test it?" puzzle has more than one
part. OTOH, if this is dead code, it doesn't matter either if I just
broke it <wink>.
HMAC.__init__(). Adapted from SF patch 895445 "hmac.HMAC.copy() speedup"
by Trevor Perrin, who reported that this approach increased throughput
of his hmac-intensive app by 30%.
> ----------------------------
> revision 1.20.4.4
> date: 2003/06/12 09:14:17; author: anthonybaxter; state: Exp; lines: +13 -6
> preamble is None when missing, not ''.
> Handle a couple of bogus formatted messages - now parses my main testsuite.
> Handle message/external-body.
> ----------------------------
> revision 1.20.4.3
> date: 2003/06/12 07:16:40; author: anthonybaxter; state: Exp; lines: +6 -4
> epilogue-processing is now the same as the old parser - the newline at the
> end of the line with the --endboundary-- is included as part of the epilogue.
> Note that any whitespace after the boundary is _not_ part of the epilogue.
> ----------------------------
> revision 1.20.4.2
> date: 2003/06/12 06:39:09; author: anthonybaxter; state: Exp; lines: +6 -4
> message/delivery-status fixed.
> HeaderParser fixed.
> ----------------------------
> revision 1.20.4.1
> date: 2003/06/12 06:08:56; author: anthonybaxter; state: Exp; lines: +163 -129
> A work-in-progress snapshot of the new parser. A couple of known problems:
>
> - first (blank) line of MIME epilogues is being consumed
> - message/delivery-status isn't quite right
>
> It still needs a lot of cleanup, but right now it parses a whole lot of
> badness that the old parser failed on. I also need to think about adding
> back the old 'strict' flag in some way.
> =============================================================================
* The default __reversed__ performed badly, so reintroduced a custom
reverse iterator.
* Added length transparency to improve speed with map(), list(), etc.
This gives another 30% speedup for operations such as
map(func, d.iteritems()) or list(d.iteritems()) which can both take
advantage of length information when provided.
* Split into three separate types that share everything except the
code for iternext. Saves run time decision making and allows
each iternext function to be specialized.
* Inlined PyDict_Next(). In addition to saving a function call, this
allows a redundant test to be eliminated and further specialization
of the code for the unique needs of each iterator type.
* Created a reusable result tuple for iteritems(). Saves the malloc
time for tuples when the previous result was not kept by client code
(this is the typical use case for iteritems). If the client code
does keep the reference, then a new tuple is created.
Results in a 20% to 30% speedup depending on the size and sparsity
of the dictionary.
* Factored constant structure references out of the inner loops for
PyDict_Next(), dict_keys(), dict_values(), and dict_items().
Gave measurable speedups to each (the improvement varies depending
on the sparseness of the dictionary being measured).
* Added a freelist scheme styled after that for tuples. Saves around
80% of the calls to malloc and free. About 10% of the time, the
previous dictionary was completely empty; in those cases, the
dictionary initialization with memset() can be skipped.
Raymond Hettinger
Nicholas Bastin
Tim Peters
Just van Rossum
Skip Montanaro
Martin v. Löwis
Neil Schemenauer
Brett Cannon
Guido van Rossum
Armin Rigo
Thomas Wouters
Fred Drake
Hye-Shik Chang