Feature or enhancement
Proposal:
We can apply @henryiii's improvement to packaging in pypa/packaging#1030 (see also https://iscinumpy.dev/post/packaging-faster/) to improve the performance of canonicalize_name and make it ~3.7 times faster.
Has this already been discussed elsewhere?
This is a minor feature, which does not need previous discussion elsewhere
Links to previous discussion of this feature:
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