Re: [Nmh-workers] m_getfld

[David Levine]

> >Yes, but by "different purposes" I was thinking how scan
> >digs back into the IO buffers.  Though maybe that won't
> >be necessary any more.
> 
> I had forgotten about that.  Okay, looking at that now .... alright,
> that's not as nasty as I thought.  All it does is to use the output
> stdio buffer as the input buffer for m_getfld() so we can avoid an extra
> copy.  Can we all agree that's not necessary anymore, and the resulting
> performance gain is probably miniscule?  If so, I can simply get rid of
> that garbage now.

Fine with me.

Would a perf test be to pack a big folder into an mbox and
then scan that?

David