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Fran,Ag(Bois Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>> Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> writes:
>> 
>> > You plan to replace metamail with elisp stuff, I hope?
>> 
>> I think so, yes.

> For small inserts, Emacs LISP stuff does well.  For big inserts, Emacs
> LISP may be irritatingly slow, even when compiled.

Yup.  I did some timing of this (wrt base64 decoding) in tm when we
were first integrating it with XEmacs.  It wasn't so much that large
attachments were slow to decode, but that funneling things through
mmencode was *much* faster.

> I would like to see options and size thresholds for being able to call
> external decoders ...

I agree.