SKIP timing

[David Relson]

Matthias,

Using Evgeny's test message
  -rw-r--r--   1 relson relson 456505 Nov 26 18:32 48220.msg

I ran 3 timings:

1 - 0.93.1's standard parser 
2 - using "if (dest!=source) memmove(dest,source,count)" instead of 
          "for (...) *dest++ = *source++"
3 - with SKIP code (as outlined earlier)

the times are:

1 - 26.94 user, 0.01 system, 31.69 elapsed, 85% CPU
2 - 23.16 user, 0.01 system, 28.73 elapsed, 80% CPU
3 - 12.54 user, 0.00 system, 12.84 elapsed, 97% CPU

Looks like further testing of the SKIP idea is worth doing.

By the way, "make check" isn't affected by my patch (which I've attached
for your experimentation).

Regards,

David