Re: spam.el is a bit aggressive loading/saving spam-stat data

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, dmaze@MIT.EDU wrote:
> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

>> How about spam-stat-load on summary entry, and spam-stat-save on
>> summary exit if spam-use-stat is on?
> 
> spam-stat-load needs to be called before splitting happens.  My
> understanding is that, once it's loaded, it doesn't need to be
> reloaded or saved until Emacs exits.

You're right, I was not thinking.

>> That seems like the right place to put those hooks, and you won't
>> have to hit 's' unnecessarily.
> 
> The same code gets called from gnus-group-save-newsrc and
> gnus-group-exit, right?  If spam-stat-save really does need to be
> called often, then calling it on summary exit makes sense, but
> otherwise saving it at the same time as .newsrc.eld would minimize
> (possibly slow) disk access.

Well, it doesn't need to be called often, and it could be added to the
save-newsrc hook.  I just thought most people would want their stats
up-to-date on disk, but I can see why it would be good to minimize
disk access.  Maybe we could allow both behaviors?

What do you think about a new variable spam-stat-save-frequency with
choices "often" and "with-newsrc"?  I guess we don't need "like a
maniac" as an option :)

Ted