Re: [Imap-protocol] If Crispin were creating IMAP today how would it be different?

> Is your measurement data and methodology for this available online anywhere?

this is a subjective assessment. Email servers are way too busy for
what they deliver. I believe it is for these reasons:

Parsing takes time. So does transfer decoding and charset conversion,
unwrapping text, dot stuffing.

It can be reduced to:
no case conversion for commands; no parsing for commands even: a
simple switch case statement suffice;

no parsing for CRLF, empty line or DOT CRLF; actually, no content
parsing at all is necessary for transmission;

no transfer encoding / decoding (it is transferred as binary);

no charset decoding: a single encoding is applied to the entire (text
part of) the message.


Simply from pragmatic point of view: if these tasks need not to be
done, server is less busy and can process higher throughput.
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