[gaim-migrate @ 2362] (Names changed to protect the innocent.) blue:~/gaim/app/src $ ls -l ~/.gaim/logs/mid.log -rw-r--r-- 1 eric eric 607043 Sep 20 03:28 /home/eric/.gaim/logs/mid.log Previously on my 1.4GHz Athlon, displaying this 600k log file in the Log Viewer took 42 seconds: time start: 1001157353 time end : 1001157395 Now, with the new smiley checker, it takes 23: time start: 1001157199 time end : 1001157222 That's still horrible, but it's only a little more than half the time it previously took. committer: Tailor Script <tailor@pidgin.im>