Re: Slow decoding

["François Pinard" <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca>]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE writes:

> Jake Colman <colman@ppllc.com> writes:

>   > What should base64-decoder-program be set to for a Solaris system?
>   > What application should I download and install (if I don't already
>   > have it) , and how do I set it up?

> I have MetaMail (mm-2.7.tar.gz or something on the FTP server) and use
> the mimencode program that comes with that (it can also decode, despite
> its name).

For one, I set:


(setq base64-decoder-program "recode"
      base64-decoder-switches '("-f" "/64")
      base64-encoder-program "recode"
      base64-encoder-switches '("-f" "../64"))


so using a recent pretest of my own `recode' program, and it is speedy
enough for me.  For a long while, I used Nathaniel's `mmencode' for similar
purposes and was satisfied.  Also, `mmencode' is a smaller and simpler
program, it surely loads and initialises more quickly.  If I use `recode',
this is at least to test it! :-) The speed difference is not significant
enough for me to notice it, however.  If one has comments, let me know.

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