[Python-bugs-list] [Bug #110648] performance-problem decoding quoted-printable (PR#340)

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Bug #110648, was updated on 2000-Jul-31 21:10
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Project: Python
Category: Library
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Bug Group: None
Priority: 4
Summary: performance-problem decoding quoted-printable (PR#340)

Details: Jitterbug-Id: 340
Submitted-By: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Ragnar_Kj=F8rstad?= <ragnark@vestdata.no>
Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 16:51:51 +0200
Version: None
OS: None

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Hi

Problem on python 1.5.1 on linux 2.2.14aa6.

Decoding quoted-printable files using mimetools.decode is really slow.
The really strange thing is, that it appers to work a lot faster on
smaller files!

I put together a little test-program that reads blocks from a file, and
decodes them individually. (The output will not be 100% correct. The
point was just to test the performance). 

Results show the time it took to decode a 300k file with the diferent
block-sizes:
1k:	6.28 s
3k:	6.59 s
10k:	8.57 s
30k:	30.45 s
100k:	127.82 s
300k:	221.67 s

I looked in quopri.decode for clues about the problem, but could not
find any. Is there something _very_ wrong with my reasoning, or is
something wrong here?



-- 
Ragnar Kjørstad

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#!/usr/bin/python
from mimetools import decode
from StringIO import StringIO
from sys import stdout, argv
from string import atoi
bsize=atoi(argv[1])
output=StringIO()
f=open("mail-test")
s=f.read(bsize)
while s:
	input=StringIO(s)
	decode(input, output, 'quoted-printable')
	s=f.read(bsize)
	stdout.write('.')
	stdout.flush()
stdout.write('done\n')

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Audit trail:
Tue Jul 11 08:25:57 2000	guido	moved from incoming to open

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