From 812ae7eef816b4459566739767312842e37d37c5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Petr Pucil <petr.pucil@seznam.cz>
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2024 20:15:27 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] read_bytes_term(): additional minor performance improvements

See the `new_v2` version at
https://gist.github.com/generalmimon/41dcb2bba48cb47c2f30ce9f086cbbf2 -
it's about 10% faster than the existing `new` version.
---
 kaitaistruct.py | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kaitaistruct.py b/kaitaistruct.py
index 487aa4a..6457550 100644
--- a/kaitaistruct.py
+++ b/kaitaistruct.py
@@ -409,10 +409,11 @@ def read_bytes_full(self):
 
     def read_bytes_term(self, term, include_term, consume_term, eos_error):
         self.align_to_byte()
+        term_byte = KaitaiStream.byte_from_int(term)
         r = bytearray()
         while True:
             c = self._io.read(1)
-            if c == b'':
+            if not c:
                 if eos_error:
                     raise Exception(
                         "end of stream reached, but no terminator %d found" %
@@ -421,7 +422,7 @@ def read_bytes_term(self, term, include_term, consume_term, eos_error):
 
                 return bytes(r)
 
-            if ord(c) == term:
+            if c == term_byte:
                 if include_term:
                     r += c
                 if not consume_term: