[Bug 5590] Scantime is very long on certain messages unless "use bytes" hack is used

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https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5590

Mark Martinec <Ma...@ijs.si> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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   Target Milestone|3.4.0                       |Future

--- Comment #46 from Mark Martinec <Ma...@ijs.si> ---
(In reply to comment #39)
> > I would imagine that treating the multi-byte characters as individual bytes
> > might bite us in ways similar to Bug 6183.
> > Does everyone agree that this is only isolated to small subsets of messages,
> > rather than affecting scan speed for all, or a majority of, messages? 
> Yes, I believe this is the case. [...]
> Agreed. Putting the the 'use bytes' would conceptually be a step backwards.
> Advantage of having a message represented as perl characters instead of bytes
> can be put to good use in several corners. It is very unfortunate that Perl
> takes such a heavy hit on them. Until this gets targeted as a DoS hole,
> it need not be turned off.

There is no light decision on this. Setting the target to 'future'...

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