Re: [VM] MIME encoding/decoding

[Uday Reddy]

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