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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/object/blank.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/object/blank.rb
index 039c50a4a2..cb74bad73e 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/object/blank.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/object/blank.rb
@@ -112,7 +112,10 @@ class String
#
# @return [true, false]
def blank?
- BLANK_RE === self
+ # The regexp that matches blank strings is expensive. For the case of empty
+ # strings we can speed up this method (~3.5x) with an empty? call. The
+ # penalty for the rest of strings is marginal.
+ empty? || BLANK_RE === self
end
end