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24.3.50; [PATCH] parse-time-string performance

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Message #38 received at 14776 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Andreas Politz <politza <at> hochschule-trier.de>
Cc: 14776 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#14776: 24.3.50; [PATCH] parse-time-string performance
Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2013 17:34:09 +0200

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

> I only considered the strict version.  Of course 2-digit years could be
> incorporated, but I don't see this as a replacement anyway, rather an
> addition or alternative: Try the rfc2822 format and fallback on the
> current code:

I see no reason to keep both the old 10x slower version and the new fast
version.  The fast version could surely be made to parse all valid(ish)
RFC822 date headers?

I think there's a corpus of date headers to test with out there
somewhere, but I can't find it at the moment..

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