Re: [nimh-dev] more format profiling

["Jon Stewart" <stew1@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> What we need is a way to get the first n characters of the message body
> without parsing the whole damn thing. The default scan line will print at
> most 47 characters of message body (assuming a subjectless message and an
> 80-column terminal); any processing beyond that is wasted.
> 
> On looking through email/Parser.py, I found a class called HeaderParser
> which purports to be the thing to use if you want the headers parsed but
> the payload left as a string. That's precisely what we want; I'm going to
> see about using that instead of the normal parser.


Yup.


> > I don't think we should let performance concerns discourage us. Three 
> > quarters of a second is too long? Wait 2 years and you won't notice it, 
> > thanks to incremental optimization and Moore's law.
> 
> Hey, wasn't I just telling you that about your distributed build setup? :)


Stroustrup's law ("The running time of correct C++ compilers doubles every 
15 months, because I keep moving the goal lines.") trumps Moore's law.


Jon
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