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From: jhs@MITRE-BEDFORD.ARPA.UUCP
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Subject: Re: uuencoded uuencode for the 8-bits...
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Date: Sun, 8-Feb-87 00:25:44 EST
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Well, it sounds as though your efforts will prove of value to the net, by
allowing us to uuencode locally.  Since that is done once and decoding is done
many times (i.e. by many people), I guess it is not so bad if the encoder is
in Deep Blue C and is 5 times slower than the decoder.  (I am assuming that
encoding and decoding are about equal.  Actually encoding may be a little
worse because writing DOS files on 1050s is much slower than reading them, and
the output file is 33% longer for encoding than for decoding.)

Anyway, thanks for your benchmarking.  It is gratifying to learn that I
apparently did a reasonable job of structuring the thing for speed.

-John S.