⚡ Bolt: [performance improvement] fast yenc decoding

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💡 What: Replaced the character-by-character while loop in _decode_yenc_lines with a vectorized approach using bytes.split(b"="), bytes.translate(), and bytearray.extend().
🎯 Why: Decoding yEnc chunks byte-by-byte in Python incurs massive interpreter loop overhead. This was a significant CPU bottleneck when running with the --deep-check option.
📊 Impact: Reduces decoding time for a 360KB chunk from ~0.8s to ~0.013s, a ~60x speedup. The performance improvements ensure deep checks execute much more efficiently.
🔬 Measurement: Run tests with python3 -m unittest discover tests to verify functionality. The performance speedup can be reproduced by benchmarking the old _decode_yenc_lines function against the new implementation on large inputs.

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verify_nzb.py (1)

118-156: LGTM!

.jules/bolt.md (2)

1-1: Typo in date: "2024" should be "2026".

The PR was created on 2026-05-20, so the documentation header year appears incorrect.

-## 2024-05-20 - Fast yEnc Decoding in Python
+## 2026-05-20 - Fast yEnc Decoding in Python

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2-3: LGTM!

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📝 Walkthrough

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Refactor
  • Optimized yEnc file decoding performance with an improved bulk-processing approach, significantly reducing decode time while maintaining full backward compatibility and existing error handling.

Walkthrough

This PR optimizes yEnc decoding in verify_nzb.py by replacing a byte-by-byte parsing loop with a precomputed 256-byte translation table and bytes.split() plus bytes.translate() bulk transformations, eliminating Python loop overhead. Performance documentation in .jules/bolt.md records the before/after benchmark results.

Changes

yEnc Decoding Performance Optimization

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Translation-table decoder and performance documentation verify_nzb.py, .jules/bolt.md	_decode_yenc_lines replaces byte-by-byte parsing with _YENC_TRANS translation table, per-line split(b"="), and bytes.translate() for fast bulk decoding. Escape/literal handling and dangling-escape validation preserved. Performance improvement documented with benchmarks.

Estimated code review effort

🎯 3 (Moderate) | ⏱️ ~20 minutes

Poem

🐰 A speedy escape from loops so slow,
Translation tables steal the show,
Split and translate, bytes do fly,
No more per-char, we skip the sky!
yEnc runs swift—hop, hop, hooray! 🚀

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 50.00% 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 clearly describes the main change: a performance improvement for yEnc decoding, which matches the core objective of the changeset.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description is directly related to the changeset, detailing the specific optimization technique used (bytes.split and bytes.translate), the motivation, and measured performance impact.
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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