Rewriting improved gnats converter

[J. Paul Reed]

On 12 Apr 2003 at 20:43:38, Daniel Berlin moved bits on my disk to say:

> > Please 'splain.
> 
> The re's run roughly the same speed in either language.
> Besides the re's, the time is bounded by the time it takes
> to add lines to multiline fields.
> The python version is faster at this.

Maybe I'm missing someting here; could you show an example of string
concatenation in perl that is slower than when done in Python?

Later,
Paul
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