> Cuts load time for a 56k message, 1.8GB /var/mail mailbox from 14 > seconds to ~6 seconds, since we avoid acquiring and releasing a mutex > for every character of input read.
Wow. Indeed, on cached mboxes, this has an extremely noticable effect for me. (For uncached ones, my old disk's I/O is still the bottleneck, of course.) Well done. Cheers, Moritz