Re: GSMime -setDefaultCoding

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

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On 2005-03-21 15:56:38 +0000 Adrian Robert <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> [from base ChangeLog]
> ---------------------
> 2005-03-11  ...
> * Source/Additions/GSMime.m:
> * Headers/Additions/GNUstepBase/GSMime.h
>   Added setDefaultEncoding:
>   This is needed in GSWeb if you use utf-8 and faster than using a
>   String as encoding name.
> ....
> 2005-03-15  ...
> * Source/Additions/GSMime.m: Mark ([setDefaultEncoding:]) as deprecated
>   rather than just removing it ... in case someone has started using it.
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>
> Could we drop this method completely instead of deprecating?  It
> was only in (non-deprecated) existence for 4 days.  Whatever code
> has been written using it was recently written, and is presumably
> fresh enough in people's minds for rewriting to not be a problem.

OK ... I found and (I think) fixed the only place using this method.  The
performance gain from using the faster method when parsing a web page was a
tiny, fraction of a percent of a percent ... just optimising header parsing
a bit dwarved the gain by a few orders of magnitude!
Anyway, I've removed it from GSMime.
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