Drop psyco usage

sybrenstuvel · sybrenstuvel · commit 08e609f59219 · 2016-04-23T10:02:23.000+02:00
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.txt b/CHANGELOG.txt
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ Version 4.0 - in development
 - Removed CLI commands that use the VARBLOCK/bigfile format.
 - Ensured that PublicKey.save_pkcs1() and PrivateKey.save_pkcs1() always return bytes.
 - Dropped support for Python 2.6
+- Dropped support for Psyco
 - Miller-Rabin iterations determined by bitsize of key.
 
 
diff --git a/rsa/transform.py b/rsa/transform.py
@@ -21,16 +21,6 @@
 
 from __future__ import absolute_import
 
-try:
-    # We'll use psyco if available on 32-bit architectures to speed up code.
-    # Using psyco (if available) cuts down the execution time on Python 2.5
-    # at least by half.
-    import psyco
-
-    psyco.full()
-except ImportError:
-    pass
-
 import binascii
 from struct import pack
 from rsa import common
