[MIME4J-5] Mime4j takes really long to parse big messages

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.3
• Fix Version/s: 0.4
• Assignee: Robert Burrell Donkin
• Reporter: Norman Maurer
• Created: 19/Feb/07 06:36
• Updated: 22/Jul/08 21:47
• Resolved: 22/Jul/08 21:47

Description

From ml:

Mime4j has general demonstrable performance problems:
http://buni.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=137
http://blog.buni.org/blog/mbarker/Meldware/2007/01/27/Look-out-Its-behind-you

I'd suggest a general code review for the "byte at a time + buffered input stream" anti-pattern
and general refactoring to do things in blocks where possible.

-Andy