Re: Huge memory consumption on accessing large newsgroup

[Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>]

>>>>> Ted Zlatanov wrote:

> On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 22:04:18 +0100 Gaute Strokkenes <gs234@srcf.ucam.org> wrote:

GS> I wonder if it would be possible to make Gnus work solely with
GS> compressed ranges (i.e. lists where dotted pairs are used to represent
GS> runs of consecutive integers)?

GS> Unless there is some deeper reason why this cannot work, I might have a
GS> stab at it (eventually).

> I think this would be a good idea.

> Consider using inversion lists.  They don't require pairs of integers;
> each value represents a flip.  They have other nice properties too,
> though it's been a while since I looked at them so I can't name them.  I
> think Kim Storm posted a sample Lisp implementation of the data
> structure in emacs-devel a while ago; I can dig it up if you're
> interested.

I don't see what you are going to do but it's very nice if we
can read the gnu.emacs.gnus newsgroup in news.motzarella.org[1]
with no extra work.  Please consider abolishing the variable:

`gnus-newsgroup-maximum-articles'

Regards,

[1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/9647
    http://news.gmane.org/group/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/thread=9638