Re: RE[2]: begin/end as a vCalendar element separator - bad move.

[Ken Shan <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Alec Dun wrote:

> I wasn't intending to exaggerate, hopefully it's small, like less than
> 52k.

I'm sorry but without further evidence I'll have to disagree with your
assessment.  We're talking about a simple stupid string search-and-
replace operation here, not some high-level unpacking and semantic
decoding of complex encoded data.  As a loose argument, it seems to me
that one line of Perl code can replace BEGIN/END with recursive MIME
subobjects.  Translated into C, I don't see how your hope that it will
be smaller than 52k cannot be satisfied easily.  Compared to 2MB I
think vendors including Microsoft would have a better luck removing
excess fat elsewhere from their applications.

I do appreciate Microsoft's commitment to building small and compact
software products, though.  (:

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