GNU bug report logs - #14776
24.3.50; [PATCH] parse-time-string performance

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Andreas Politz <politza <at> hochschule-trier.de>

Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 01:23:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: patch, wontfix

Found in version 24.3.50

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #23 received at 14776 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Politz <politza <at> hochschule-trier.de>
To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 14776 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#14776: 24.3.50; [PATCH] parse-time-string performance
Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2013 21:47:58 +0200

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

> But this reminds me: Why are we parsing data strings in Emacs Lisp at
> all?  Doesn't libc (or gnulib) have date parsing functions?

Like strptime ?

Probably not worth it, since it doesn't seem to be a bottleneck,
contrary to what I was suggesting. Or are there other reasons ?

-ap
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