From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/24754 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robert Bihlmeyer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Searching a (mail) group Date: 23 Aug 1999 11:53:08 +0200 Organization: The Cabal (There Is None) Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035162266 10479 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:04:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:04:26 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from farabi.math.uh.edu (farabi.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.57]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id FAA24968 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 1999 05:55:13 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by farabi.math.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id EAB21779; Mon, 23 Aug 1999 04:53:46 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 23 Aug 1999 04:54:08 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id EAA06693 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 1999 04:53:56 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mars.zserv.tuwien.ac.at (mars.zserv.tuwien.ac.at [193.170.75.15]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id FAA24953 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 1999 05:53:08 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (qmail 24895 invoked by uid 524); 23 Aug 1999 09:53:08 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Attribution: Robbe In-Reply-To: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "22 Aug 1999 14:38:54 +0200" Original-Lines: 35 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070095 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.95) XEmacs/20.4 (Emerald) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:24754 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:24754 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 -- Robert Bihlmeyer reads: Deutsch, English, MIME, Latin-1, NO SPAM!