From: Robert Bihlmeyer <e9426626@stud4.tuwien.ac.at>
Subject: Searching a (mail) group
Date: 23 Aug 1999 11:53:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <lf1zcu3jsr.fsf@mars.zserv.tuwien.ac.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "22 Aug 1999 14:38:54 +0200"
Hi,
>>>>> On 22 Aug 1999 14:38:54 +0200
>>>>> Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) said:
Kai> Which operations are particularly slow and which operations are
Kai> particularly fast for the following backends?
Kai> - nnmbox
Kai> - nnbabyl
Kai> - nnfolder
Kai> - nnmh
Kai> - nnml
[...]
Kai> - Searching in a group with `M-s'.
wouldn't it be much faster if the backend interface offered an
optional command to search a group in a backend-specific way?
For the one-article-one-file style backends, a simple grep command is
probably one order of magnitude quicker than reading each file into a
buffer and searching it within emacs. Even for one-group-one-file
backends it could be faster to search the file buffer directly,
instead of dissecting out each article before searching.
Gnus would fall back to the usual strategy for backends not
implementing this quick-search method.
Robbe
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-08-23 9:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-08-22 12:38 Comparing mail backends Kai Großjohann
1999-08-23 9:53 ` Robert Bihlmeyer [this message]
1999-09-24 18:53 ` Searching a (mail) group Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-09-24 18:52 ` Comparing mail backends Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-09-27 17:13 ` Wes Hardaker
1999-09-27 17:21 ` Lars Balker Rasmussen
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