Re: Slow decoding

[Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>]

Lee Willis <lee@gbdirect.co.uk> writes:

> Markus Dickebohm <m.dickebohm@uni-koeln.de> writes:
> 
> > This went quite smooth with TM, but now with pgnus (though I really
> > like all the new features and the look-and-feel) it takes extremely
> > long to decode a say 2MB attachment. Here on my little DEC Alpha
> > Workstation Emacs freezes for approximately 5 minutes, then asks for a
> > filename and freezes again for 5-10 minutes.
> 
> Hmm, well at the moment all base-64 en/decoding is done in Emacs Lisp
> which isn't exactly the nippiest language in the world. Apparently in
> future versions of (x?)emacs there will be base-64 encoding/decoding
                      ^^
> which will be in C so should be less lethargic ...

Yes.  The latest XEmacs 21.2 also supports native base64 en/decoding.

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Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
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