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gh-118761: substitute re import in base64.b16decode for a more efficient alternative #128736

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Improve import time of the `base64` module.
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Improve `base64.b16decode()` by a factor 10.
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reduces memory usage.
(Contributed by Kumar Aditya in :gh:`107803`.)


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* Improve performance of :func:`base64.b16decode` by a factor ten by
removing an unnecessary regular expression. Consequently, :mod:`re`
is no more implicitly available as ``base64.re`` and import time of
:mod:`base64` is improved by a factor six.
(Contributed by Bénédikt Tran in :gh:`118761`.)
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* :mod:`io` which provides the built-in :func:`open` makes less system calls
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