Use faster all-at-once xor on Python 3.2+. #5
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On Python 3.2+, byte sequences can be reduced to integers and XORed at once rather than byte-by-byte. This has significant speed-ups in my x86_64 testing.
Approach is demonstrated and benchmarked in https://stackoverflow.com/a/29409299/1843865