GMime: Never underestimate the power of Mirwais - Disco Science.ogg. Started implementing that parser I talked about in my last diary entry at around 11pm last night, around 5am this morning the gnome community sees this:

<fejj_sleep> whooo!! my new gmime parser is fucking
fast!!!
<andersca> cool
<fejj_sleep> unf
<andersca> you are very cool fejj
<fejj_sleep> haha, thanks
<fejj_sleep> it's almost as fast as a previous parser
of mine which loaded the entire message into ram before
processing
<fejj_sleep> we're talking a hare difference in speed
<fejj_sleep> and my new parser parses off disk
<andersca> cool
* andersca certifies fejj as master
<fejj_sleep> :)
<jamesh> if this is what fejj can do while sleeping,
think of what he is like when awake

How fast is fast do you ask? Let me show you a comparison of my latest 3 parsers taking as input a ~1.1MB MIME message (a multipart containing a multipart of X screen dumps):

gmime1:
memory parser: 0.051s
on-disk parser: 0.173s (buffered)
on-disk parser: 5.060s (unbuffered)

gmime2:
on-disk parser: 0.057s (varies between 0.056s and 0.057s)

That, my friend, is what we say in hacker land is fast :-)

Update: Just got pointed to this article by a friend: http://www.nodewarrior.org/minorfish/mf-users-archive/archive-20021/0006.html

Gotta love hearing that stuff about your software, makes ya all warm n fuzzy ;-)