Re: Let's get effective!

[William Perry <wmperry@spry.com>]

Joe Hildebrand wrote:
> 
> > "Steven" == Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com> writes:
> 
>    Steven> None of this means that effort should be relaxed on cutting
>    Steven> down the excess garbage in Gnus.  My tests indicate that
>    Steven> Gnus easily defeats mmap mallocs at present.
> 
> Well, that wasn't exactly what I meant.  I was trying to suggest that
> gnus mmap the .overview file semi-directly, rather than going through
> lots of malloc stuff.  The more I think about it, though, the less
> sure I am of the efficacy of that plan.  At that point, it probably
> makes more sense for the overview files to be in gdbm format, or
> something.
> 
> Hey!  Hadn't there been some talk about a nngdbm backend?  Didn't
> someone do a gdbm interface for emacs, that they were going to give to
> RMS?

  That would be me.  I have GDBM and BerkeleyDB support in XEmacs currently.  I haven't
had a chance to backport them to the stock Emacs 19 yet, and am waiting to get some
generic waver papers signed by my current boss so anything I do is not encumbered.

  Anybody with the XEmacs 19.14beta code should be able to work on this stuff though.
I can try to pull out the patches I made if someone thinks they can find the time
before the end of the month to stick it in Emacs 19.

-Bill P.