Speed difference in Gnus

[Ben Wing]

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

>Yes.  I think that CCL has four interesting applications that I know
>of: shift-jis, big5, mule-ucs, and fast table-based character sets
>(eg, KOI8).  The first two have been in C forever, and the latter two
>are in C in the unicode support now (at least in principle).
>
>There are also some minor hacks from Aidan and others.
>  
>
well, i can think of at least one example still, which is the chinese hz 
encoding.  although now that i look, i see that china-util.el does 
indeed implement this, and doesn't use ccl.

ben