[Monotone-devel] Re: FYI: (en|de)code_hexenc now use botan

[Graydon Hoare]

Zack Weinberg wrote:
> I just pushed a change that removes transforms.cc's bespoke
> implementation of hex encoding in favor of Botan's.  I believe this to
> have been a historical accident, but if it turns out to cause
> performance issues (which I doubt it will) we can certainly go back to
> the way it was.

Actually it was a performance issue, which you just reverted :)

Please feel free to profile before and after to justify it, but iirc it 
was a pretty big issue because we transcode zillions of them during 
netsync, and possibly some other operations.

-graydon