[kaffe] HUGE speedup in KaffeEncoder/KaffeDecoder

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Ito Kazumitsu wrote:
>>>>>>"A" == Adam Heath <doogie at brainfood.com> writes:
> 
> 
> A> With my fix in place, and a dump loop reading(or writing) one char at time, I
> A> saw a read increase of 200 fold(200 times!), and a write increase of 90 fold.
> A> The stupid version of my parser saw a 25 fold increase.
> 
> A> ps: I do have commit access, but this is a very low-level change, and wanted
> A> others to see it first.  I haven't run any test cases, other than my parsing
> A> program.
> 
> Thank you, Adam.  With your patch applied,  I run my applications which
> handle texts in Japanese.  The results are good.

Konnichiwa Ito, Hi Adam,

Since Ito is the main Kaffe(De/En)coder hacker, and Adam has Ito's seal 
of approval, I'd say let's check it in, if it passes the regression 
tests. :)

Adam, would you take care of that?

cheers,
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