John Hein writes: > We should check the performance of builtin decoding - particularly > with larger messages on slower machines. That said, most of the unix > flavors & cygwin out there now have one or more command line tools to > en/decode base64 (less prevalent are qp tools) which can take the > place of the vm versions:
As I said, base64 is now a non-issue because Emacsen have built-in functions for it. For Quoted Pritable, you can check performance of the elisp code by setting qp-decoder-program and qp-encoder-program to nil. Cheers, Uday
