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Speedup the ASCII decoder
It is faster for long string and a little bit faster for short strings,
benchmark on Linux 32 bits, Intel Core i5 @ 3.33GHz:
./python -m timeit 'x=b"a"' 'x.decode("ascii")'
./python -m timeit 'x=b"x"*80' 'x.decode("ascii")'
./python -m timeit 'x=b"abc"*4096' 'x.decode("ascii")'
length | before | after
-------+------------+-----------
1 | 0.234 usec | 0.229 usec
80 | 0.381 usec | 0.357 usec
12,288 | 11.2 usec | 3.01 usec