From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/5530 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: William Perry Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Let's get effective! Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 12:37:46 -0800 Organization: SPRY, Inc. Sender: wmperry@homer.spry.com Message-ID: <3147321A.41C6@spry.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035146122 649 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:35:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:35:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@ifi.uio.no Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.7.3/8.6.9) with SMTP id NAA05765 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 13:08:50 -0800 Original-Received: from homer.spry.com (homer.spry.com [165.121.12.50]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 21:39:07 +0100 Original-Received: from melnibone (melnibone [198.185.2.197]) by homer.spry.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id MAA20074; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 12:39:40 -0800 X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; IRIX 5.3 IP22) Original-To: hildjj@fuentez.com Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5530 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5530 Joe Hildebrand wrote: > > > "Steven" == Steven L Baur 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.