Re: Huge memory consumption on accessing large newsgroup

[Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net>]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
> On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 22:17:46 +1000 Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net> wrote: 
> DP> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
>
>>> The `gnus-uncompress-range' function is not called in too many
>>> places:
>
>>> In gnus-number-of-unseen-articles-in-group for example it's called
>>> only to find the length of the list, and in
>>> gnus-move-group-to-server only to see if the list is not nil.
>
> DP> Mmm.  The not nil version should really be killed, as a guide, and
> DP> the length isn't too awful.  The length version can just call
> DP> `gnus-range-length' and be done with it...
>
> Those were just two examples I saw right away.  Will you or Gaute do
> the whole cleanup, or should it be an open task for the Gnus team
> (I'll get to it when I can, or someone else will)?

Open the task, I suggest, unless Gaute is willing to commit to finishing
the job.  I ... have more than enough on my plate with having to move
offices, home and deal with a few other life issues that I can't promise
to finish the job.

(Plus, having done all the easy bits the rest is actually vaguely hard.)

        Daniel
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