⚡ Bolt: [Improvement] Optimize yEnc decoding via fast C-backed string operations

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💡 What: Replaced the pure Python byte-by-byte decoding loop in _decode_yenc_lines with C-backed bytes.find() to locate escape characters and a module-level bytes.translate() table.
🎯 Why: Iterating over byte arrays manually in Python creates massive overhead.
📊 Impact: Expected to reduce yEnc parsing and decoding time by roughly 80% (~5.2x speedup in isolated benchmarks).
🔬 Measurement: Verified functionality matches via unittest suite and custom performance script to compare speedups and memory footprint.

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📝 Walkthrough

Summary by CodeRabbit

Release Notes

• Refactor
  • Improved performance of yEnc decoding operations through optimized internal processing algorithms for faster file validation.

Walkthrough

This PR optimizes yEnc decoding in verify_nzb.py by introducing a precomputed 256-byte translation table and rewriting the _decode_yenc_lines function to use bytes.translate() for bulk byte conversion. The implementation preserves per-line escape-sequence handling and dangling-escape error detection.

Changes

yEnc Decoding Performance

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Translation table and decode optimization verify_nzb.py	Module-level _YENC_TRANSLATE_TABLE provides precomputed yEnc byte mappings. The rewritten _decode_yenc_lines processes escape sequences per line, then applies bulk translate-based conversion for improved performance while maintaining dangling-escape error behavior.

Estimated code review effort

🎯 2 (Simple) | ⏱️ ~10 minutes

Poem

A rabbit hops through encoded lines,
With translate tables, the decode aligns,
No more byte-by-byte in a weary dance,
Bulk conversion gives performance a chance! 🐰✨

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title accurately describes the main optimization: replacing byte-by-byte Python decoding with C-backed string operations (bytes.translate) for yEnc decoding.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description is directly related to the changeset, explaining the what (replacement with C-backed operations), why (overhead reduction), and impact (80% speedup), matching the summarized changes.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
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