From: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann)
Subject: Re: Why article numbers?
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 10:52:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <84n0kn9vdh.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ilur8a07xoj.fsf@latte.josefsson.org>
Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
> How would you handle two messages with the same message-id? Or no
> message-id (think drafts)? Since it is possible to create that
> scenario, Gnus should IMHO handle it. I think an abstract data type
> separated from the message itself is more flexible. I see two
> problems with the use of integers today: handling sets of integers can
> be slow, and the integer limit in emacs is too small.
Do you think dealing with a set of 1,000,000 integers is slower than
dealing with a set of 1,000,000 strings, say?
For the integer limit, well, err, somebody should do bignums in Emacs
Lisp :-)
> Regarding the nnimap issue, a better solution would IMHO be to fix it
> to do proper re-syncing on UIDVALIDITY changes, which it probably
> would have to do even if message-id's are used to index articles since
> IMAP uses integers to retrieve articles anyway.
Is this possible?
--
A preposition is not a good thing to end a sentence with.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-23 9:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-07 21:55 Kai Großjohann
2003-02-08 20:38 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-02-08 23:44 ` Paul Jarc
2003-02-08 23:49 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-02-09 14:59 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-02-10 18:40 ` Paul Jarc
2003-02-22 20:24 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-02-22 21:11 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-02-22 21:24 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-02-22 21:37 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-02-22 21:44 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-02-23 9:51 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-02-22 22:33 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-02-23 9:52 ` Kai Großjohann [this message]
2003-02-23 11:04 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-02-23 13:33 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-02-23 16:56 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-02-23 17:23 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-02-23 11:34 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-02-23 16:56 ` Michael Shields
2003-02-22 21:43 ` Paul Jarc
2003-02-23 5:03 ` Michael Shields
2003-02-23 10:28 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-02-23 11:38 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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