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Ken Raeburn <raeburn@cygnus.com> writes:

> I noticed some time ago that timezone-parse-date took up a large
> portion of the time of building a summary buffer in Gnus.

How large a portion?  20%, 50%?  Looking at timezone.el, it looks like
it should be written in C.  It's not that hard to write, and the
speedup would measure by hundreds (all those regexps would become
unnecessary).

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