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Patch from oliver: In message.c in the escape & unescape functions the loops are not optimal, doing a strlen() for each character in the message string. valgrind/callgrind identified especially msim_unescape() as a expensive because of that (guess there is more unescaping going on than escaping). The attached patch moves the strlen() out of the loop header for both functions. Closes #4790.

For information on writing a plugin for Purple, Pidgin or Finch, go
http://developer.pidgin.im and click on API.  From there, see the HOWTOs in the
"Related Pages" section.

You can also generate this documentation locally by installing
doxygen and graphviz dot, then running "make docs" in the
source tree.  The documentation will be in the docs/html directory.