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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"