From: yannvgn <hi@yannvgn.io>
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2019 18:50:39 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: bpo-37723: Fix performance regression on regular expression parsing. (GH-15030)
X-Git-Tag: v3.9.0a1~938
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9f55551f3df238e58315e724e50cb0d574d75b94;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

bpo-37723: Fix performance regression on regular expression parsing. (GH-15030)

Improve performance of sre_parse._uniq function.
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diff --git a/Lib/sre_parse.py b/Lib/sre_parse.py
index 84c912573e7f..83119168e637 100644
--- a/Lib/sre_parse.py
+++ b/Lib/sre_parse.py
@@ -430,13 +430,7 @@ def _escape(source, escape, state):
     raise source.error("bad escape %s" % escape, len(escape))
 
 def _uniq(items):
-    if len(set(items)) == len(items):
-        return items
-    newitems = []
-    for item in items:
-        if item not in newitems:
-            newitems.append(item)
-    return newitems
+    return list(dict.fromkeys(items))
 
 def _parse_sub(source, state, verbose, nested):
     # parse an alternation: a|b|c
diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index 9ff74ec0cca1..6463b535e17c 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -1708,6 +1708,7 @@ Michael Urman
 Hector Urtubia
 Lukas Vacek
 Ville Vainio
+Yann Vaginay
 Andi Vajda
 Case Van Horsen
 John Mark Vandenberg
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-07-31-16-49-01.bpo-37723.zq6tw8.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-07-31-16-49-01.bpo-37723.zq6tw8.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..65507bd0dc91
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-07-31-16-49-01.bpo-37723.zq6tw8.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Fix performance regression on regular expression parsing with huge
+character sets. Patch by Yann Vaginay.
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