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From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: emulating mozilla's Label command
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 16:10:14 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4nn05bd6qh.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m28ygvzxzk.fsf@catbert.dok.org> (Chris Green's message of "Fri, 16 Apr 2004 12:30:39 -0400")

On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, cmg@dok.org wrote:

> I'm not sure what nil means here.  The purpose of that variable is
> to keep memory down at the potential expense of CPU.  In that mode,
> a each cache-reverse lookup would have to do an O(N) search.

Right, so nil wouldn't be the default, but people with very low
memory could use it.

I think more granularity than those four levels would be overkill.

> Put another way:
> 
> Is the difference between 'opportunistic and nil:
> 
>   1) saving to disk or
>   2) creation of an in-memory cache at all

Memory.

Ted



      reply	other threads:[~2004-04-16 20:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-08 14:02 Chris Green
2004-04-08 15:59 ` Wes Hardaker
2004-04-10 10:40   ` Sacha Chua
2004-04-10 14:14     ` Wes Hardaker
2004-04-08 21:29 ` Simon Josefsson
2004-04-12 15:03   ` Ted Zlatanov
2004-04-12 16:46     ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-04-13 15:30       ` Ted Zlatanov
2004-04-13 19:14         ` Chris Green
2004-04-15 19:40           ` Ted Zlatanov
2004-04-15 20:01             ` Chris Green
2004-04-16 14:53               ` Ted Zlatanov
2004-04-16 16:30                 ` Chris Green
2004-04-16 20:10                   ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]

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