From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: Nntp inefficiencies
Date: 10 Nov 1998 05:47:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m33e7sjgr2.fsf@sparky.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Paul Franklin's message of "09 Nov 1998 09:58:31 -0800"
Paul Franklin <paul@cs.washington.edu> writes:
> Just so everyone's clear, Kurt and I are looking at slightly
> different situations.
>
> I'm looking at the mail backends where Gnus has complete control
> over what's going on. For these backends, it should be trivial to
> get the number exactly right in all cases, and I think it is.
Well, the situation is really the same for, say, nntp and nnmh. You
can do a LISTGROUP to get an overview of which articles exist in an
nntp group, and you can do a `directory-files' to get a list of which
articles exist in an nnmh group. These actions (by my guesstimate) is
in the same order of magnitude of work and time.
> Lars, if I get this working, do you want patches? (I think this
> involves adding a group parameter, since I need to remember two
> extra per-group integers. Is there a better way?)
Could you outline what algorithm you plan on using?
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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[not found] <6f67d62e2s.fsf@dna.lth.se>
1998-10-29 10:25 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
[not found] ` <6fpvbbo9ed.fsf@dna.lth.se>
1998-10-29 19:43 ` Paul Franklin
1998-10-31 14:11 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-10-31 22:18 ` David Hedbor
[not found] ` <6fg1c3ef1i.fsf@dna.lth.se>
1998-11-07 14:02 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
[not found] ` <6fu30as9mo.fsf@dna.lth.se>
1998-11-08 12:37 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
[not found] ` <6fogqixnli.fsf@dna.lth.se>
1998-11-08 15:31 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-11-09 6:41 ` Yair Friedman
1998-11-10 4:41 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-11-09 17:58 ` Paul Franklin
1998-11-10 4:47 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
[not found] ` <6fk9159ru6.fsf@dna.lth.se>
1998-11-10 4:44 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
[not found] ` <6femrc3pig.fsf@dna.lth.se>
[not found] ` <m3ogqbmkgp.fsf@sparky.gnus.org>
1998-11-14 12:21 ` Kurt Swanson
1998-11-08 17:00 ` Alan Shutko
1998-11-08 21:30 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-10-31 14:11 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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