From: Matthias Andree <ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de>
To: ding@gnus.org
Cc: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: pop3 speedup
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 21:16:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E80CFAA.9050601@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3d3en175y.fsf@stories.gnus.org>
Am 26.09.2011 20:37, schrieb Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen:
> I noticed that pop3 mail fetching took exponential time (i.e., a bit
> mailbox would take forever to fetch) and rewrote the fetch-and-wait
> function to be linear instead.
>
> The new function seems to work for me, but I thought I'd give you a
> heads up. If you see anything odd in this area, please tell me.
_exponential_? How does an algorithm for POP3 mail fetching with such a
complexity look like? (URL to some Git front-end with the diff suffices)
I've seen various awkward cases in POP3 or IMAP clients as worse as
O(n^2 * log n), but I can't possibly fancy how to attain O(e^n).
--
Matthias Andree
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-26 19:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-26 18:37 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-26 19:16 ` Matthias Andree [this message]
2011-09-26 19:29 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-26 19:34 ` Antoine Levitt
2011-09-26 19:35 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-26 19:55 ` Antoine Levitt
2011-09-26 20:09 ` Matthias Andree
2011-09-26 20:01 ` Matthias Andree
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