Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> It's not much of a bottleneck, no:
>
> (benchmark-elapse (dotimes (i 10000) (parse-time-string "Thu, 04 Jul 2013 20:06:00 +0200")))
> => 1.120856647

=> 0.215108395
;-O

But only with this: