Re: master 9d0385d: Fix problem with 8bit content-transfer-encoding in nndoc mbox files

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> I think you want to swap the order: first erase-buffer, and then
> set-buffer-multibyte.  That's because the latter in a non-empty buffer
> can be expensive, and tis actually waste of cycles if you are going to
> erase the buffer.

Yup, I've now done this.  Looking at the code, it looks like a possibly
offensive case of defensive programming -- that buffer will be empty
when the `erase-buffer' is called, I think.

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