bug#14776: 24.3.50; [PATCH] parse-time-string performance

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

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

> I should have tested this with -Q.  The reason is a customized
> gc-cons-percentage (0.2) and gc-cons-threshold (67108864).  Using the
> default values shows almost no difference anymore in gnus, i.e. both
> versions (stock and patched) need around ~10s.
>
> I suppose there are various lessons to learn from this endeavour.

:-)

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

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