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Speed up codespell:ignore check by skipping the regex in most cases
The codespell codebase unsurprisingly spends a vast majority of its runtime in various regex related code such as `search` and `finditer`. The best way to optimize runtime spend in regexes is to not do a regex in the first place, since the regex engine has a rather steep overhead over regular string primitives (that is at the cost of flexibility). If the regex rarely matches and there is a very easy static substring that can be used to rule out the match, then you can speed up the code by using `substring in string` as a conditional to skip the regex. This is assuming the regex is used enough for the performance to matter. An obvious choice here falls on the `codespell:ignore` regex, because it has a very distinctive substring in the form of `codespell:ignore`, which will rule out almost all lines that will not match. With this little trick, runtime goes from ~5.4s to ~4.5s on the corpus mentioned in #3419.
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codespell_lib/_codespell.py

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uri_regex_def = (
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r"(\b(?:https?|[ts]?ftp|file|git|smb)://[^\s]+(?=$|\s)|\b[\w.%+-]+@[\w.-]+\b)"
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)
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inline_ignore_regex = re.compile(r"[^\w\s]\s*codespell:ignore\b(\s+(?P<words>[\w,]*))?")
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codespell_ignore_tag = "codespell:ignore"
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inline_ignore_regex = re.compile(
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rf"[^\w\s]\s*{codespell_ignore_tag}\b(\s+(?P<words>[\w,]*))?"
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)
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USAGE = """
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\t%prog [OPTIONS] [file1 file2 ... fileN]
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"""
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continue
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extra_words_to_ignore = set()
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match = inline_ignore_regex.search(line)
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match = (
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inline_ignore_regex.search(line) if codespell_ignore_tag in line else None
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)
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if match:
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extra_words_to_ignore = set(
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filter(None, (match.group("words") or "").split(","))

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