Rewriting improved gnats converter

[Daniel Berlin]

On Sun, 13 Apr 2003, Bradley Baetz wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 07:37:39PM -0400, Daniel Berlin wrote:
> >
> > Not really.
> > See pyperl.
> > It works just fine (I tried it).
> >
>
> "oh dear" :)
>
> I am curious why python is faster than perl, though, since I'd asume
> that most of the gnats parsing is regular expressions,
No, it's mostly string concatenation.
The re's aren't a factor at the speed they run in both languages.
> and perl does
> those quite well.
String concatenation speed difference.

>
> Bradley
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