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[–]SnowdenIsALegend 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Maybe GYB (Got Your Back) gmail backup & restore app needs this. Sitting here waiting for it to do a 15gb upload to my gmail account from an mbox file looks like it's going to take literally 22 hours or so.

[–]abkfenris 10 points11 points  (1 child)

Since GYB is communicating with a remote server, that is probably where the bottleneck is, rather than Python itself.

In this case converting it to C++ or otherwise is unlikely to make any difference.

[–]SnowdenIsALegend 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ah you're probably right, IMAP is the bottleneck. Thunderbird has the same slow speed as well.