Release 0.2.3
This is a performance improvement release:
BitString
type implementation rebased onto Pythonint
to behave like an integer and improve serialization performance (100x times!).Integer
codecs reimplemented to base on Python's built-in integer serialization codecs to improve serialization performance (~40%).- Decoding performance of
Set
andChoice
types improved by caching once computed tags maps. - ASN.1 character types refactored to duck-type unicode strings thus making them more convenient in text processing context.
- Documentation updated at many places.
More changes noted in the CHANGELOG.