From: Lee Willis <lee@gbdirect.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Slow decoding
Date: 01 Dec 1998 12:12:26 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <lz3e709i39.fsf@landlord.gbdirect.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Markus Dickebohm's message of "01 Dec 1998 12:54:57 +0100"
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 ...
Lee.
--
I was doing object-oriented assembly at 1 year old ...
For some reason my mom insists on calling it "Playing with blocks"
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-12-01 12:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-12-01 11:54 Markus Dickebohm
1998-12-01 12:05 ` Kai.Grossjohann
1998-12-01 12:20 ` Markus Dickebohm
1998-12-01 14:56 ` Jake Colman
1998-12-01 16:58 ` Kai.Grossjohann
1998-12-01 20:49 ` François Pinard
[not found] ` <6f7lwcrqmb.fsf@dna.lth.se>
1998-12-01 12:34 ` Kai.Grossjohann
1998-12-01 12:12 ` Lee Willis [this message]
1998-12-01 14:59 ` Hrvoje Niksic
[not found] ` <6fbtlorrg3.fsf@dna.lth.se>
1998-12-01 23:01 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
[not found] ` <6f3e6yzz2s.fsf@dna.lth.se>
1998-12-02 17:13 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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