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💡 What: Replace manual byte-by-byte iteration in _decode_yenc_lines with C-backed bytearray.translate and bytearray.find operations.
🎯 Why: Python-level iteration over byte streams with arithmetic operations is extremely slow, acting as a major performance bottleneck during the validation of large downloaded article bodies.
📊 Impact: The decoding time for typical payloads is reduced from ~3.4 seconds to ~0.17 seconds (approximately a 20x improvement).
🔬 Measurement: Verified using an internal 10k line benchmark script (benchmark.py) and validated that the full test suite remains green.

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Optimize yEnc decoding using C-backed translate tables
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  • Performance
    • Optimized yEnc decoding for faster processing speeds while maintaining the same functionality and validation behavior.

Walkthrough

This PR optimizes yEnc line decoding in verify_nzb.py by replacing a sequential byte-by-byte loop with precomputed translation tables and bulk-translation logic. The new implementation scans for escape-byte positions, translates unescaped segments in bulk, and handles escaped bytes selectively, while preserving all validation behavior.

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yEnc Decoding Optimization

Layer / File(s) Summary
yEnc line decoding with precomputed translation tables
verify_nzb.py		 Introduces _YENC_DECODE_TABLE and _YENC_ESCAPE_TABLE precomputed translation tables and rewrites _decode_yenc_lines to bulk-translate unescaped byte ranges via bytes.translate() and handle escaped bytes by scanning for = positions, while preserving dangling-escape validation.

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🎯 4 (Complex) | ⏱️ ~45 minutes

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🐰 A table-powered yEnc decode,
Bulk translation lightens the load,
Escapes scanned with care,
No dangling bytes bare,
Faster bytes down the information road! 🚀

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

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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 directly and clearly describes the main optimization: replacing the yEnc decoding implementation with a C-backed translation approach for performance improvement.
Description check ✅ Passed The description is directly related to the changeset, explaining the what, why, and measured impact of the yEnc decoding optimization in the pull request.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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