From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/65313 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Katsumi Yamaoka Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Huge memory consumption on accessing large newsgroup Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 09:29:48 +0900 Organization: Emacsen advocacy group Message-ID: References: <87wsw4u21m.fsf@gmx.de> <87sl6rh886.fsf@gmx.de> <87hcldp4j1.fsf@srcf.ucam.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1191198670 2600 80.91.229.12 (1 Oct 2007 00:31:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 00:31:10 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M13825@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Oct 01 02:31:06 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ic9Be-00040o-7h for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 01 Oct 2007 02:31:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Ic9BG-00076h-Of; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 19:30:38 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Ic9BE-00076N-Q6 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 19:30:36 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1Ic9B8-0004GO-Kf for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 19:30:36 -0500 Original-Received: from orlando.hostforweb.net ([216.246.45.90]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Ic9B0-000831-00 for ; Mon, 01 Oct 2007 02:30:22 +0200 Original-Received: from [66.225.201.151] (port=40673 helo=mail.jpl.org) by orlando.hostforweb.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1Ic9AZ-0002VL-1b for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 19:29:55 -0500 X-Hashcash: 1:20:071001:ding@gnus.org::5F6uRSocGw5gos9B:0000BmFf X-Face: #kKnN,xUnmKia.'[pp`;Omh}odZK)?7wQSl"4o04=EixTF+V[""w~iNbM9ZL+.b*_CxUmFk B#Fu[*?MZZH@IkN:!"\w%I_zt>[$nm7nQosZ<3eu;B:$Q_:p!',P.c0-_Cy[dz4oIpw0ESA^D*1Lw= L&i*6&( User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:DoM+dLPKIccJXJoia2KgajozwV0= X-Antivirus-Scanner: Clean mail though you should still use an Antivirus X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - orlando.hostforweb.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gnus.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - jpl.org X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-Spam-Score: -2.4 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:65313 Archived-At: >>>>> Ted Zlatanov wrote: > On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 22:04:18 +0100 Gaute Strokkenes 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