From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/57055 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: emulating mozilla's Label command Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 16:10:14 -0400 Organization: =?koi8-r?q?=F4=C5=CF=C4=CF=D2=20=FA=CC=C1=D4=C1=CE=CF=D7?= @ Cienfuegos Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: <4nn05bd6qh.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <4noepxs0fo.fsf@b2-25-3.bwh.harvard.edu> <87n05hnny5.fsf@emptyhost.emptydomain.de> <4nad1fq4ja.fsf@b2-25-3.bwh.harvard.edu> <4nk70hav21.fsf@b2-25-3.bwh.harvard.edu> <4nk70g9dom.fsf@b2-25-3.bwh.harvard.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1082147117 12462 80.91.224.253 (16 Apr 2004 20:25:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 20:25:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M5595@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Apr 16 22:25:07 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BEZtb-0003XQ-00 for ; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 22:25:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1BEZtD-0005JH-00; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 15:24:43 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1BEZt5-0005JB-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 15:24:35 -0500 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BEZt3-0003Em-SJ for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 15:24:33 -0500 Original-Received: from clifford.bwh.harvard.edu (clifford.bwh.harvard.edu [134.174.9.41]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFCFE3A008D for ; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 15:24:32 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from asimov (asimov [134.174.9.63]) by clifford.bwh.harvard.edu (8.10.2+Sun/8.11.0) with ESMTP id i3GKOV103290; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 16:24:32 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: Chris Green X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6;d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Mail-Followup-To: Chris Green , ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Chris Green's message of "Fri, 16 Apr 2004 12:30:39 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:57055 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:57055 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