Speedup decodeUnicodeEscape by avoiding useless string replace. by rchateauneu · Pull Request #1324 · RDFLib/rdflib (original) (raw)

This avoids costly strings replaces if there is no backslash in the string.

Tested by parsing orkg.nt :
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Explanation: When there are no backslashes in the string (which is the most common case), the function decodeUnicodeEscape() returns immediately.