Re: Gnus' speed

[Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net>]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
> On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:58:37 +1000 Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net> wrote: 
>
> DP> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
>>> I think the backend rewrite would be fairly minor, but there are many
>>> internal and user-visible functions in Gnus that also will need to be
>>> modified.  It's a lot of work.
>
> DP> I think that saying "fairly minor" is misleading here: adding the capability
> DP> to the IMAP backend isn't enormously hard, but defining a sound (and portable)
> DP> API, and implementing it, is quite non-trivial.
>
> I'd do it with the IMAP convention of "1.2.3" to mean part 3 of part 2 of
> part 1 as an optional parameter for the backend command to fetch the body,
> and an extra backend command to get a message's structure (list of strings
> as above with the associated data).

Given that the IMAP data structure is more or less an sexpr, using that fairly
directly made sense to me.  Given it is really the only model, too, with any
widespread use ...

[...]

> Your itemized list seems very thorough and you've obviously thought
> about this more than I.  Are you interested in coordinating this effort?

At the moment, no, otherwise I would probably be writing the code instead of
just talking about it.  As it is, I looked at this a couple of years back, so
my knowledge might well be out-of-date.

Sorry.  I hate to just offer advice and not actual code, but I don't think
volunteering for the later will help anyone out.

Regards,
        Daniel
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