From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: Why article numbers?
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2003 21:38:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m34r7ev77b.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <841y2jzrgm.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de>
kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes:
> Now that I'm thinking about it again, maybe it is possible to migrate
> all of Gnus away from article numbers as identifiers, towards some
> opaque data type?
I think that's impossible. Gnus deals with groups that commonly have
hundreds of thousands of articles in them. Doing anything but
integers will be too slow.
(That is, until we get 45THz CPUs and 1PB RAM.)
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-08 20:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-07 21:55 Kai Großjohann
2003-02-08 20:38 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2003-02-08 23:44 ` Paul Jarc
2003-02-08 23:49 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-02-09 14:59 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-02-10 18:40 ` Paul Jarc
2003-02-22 20:24 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-02-22 21:11 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-02-22 21:24 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-02-22 21:37 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-02-22 21:44 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-02-23 9:51 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-02-22 22:33 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-02-23 9:52 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-02-23 11:04 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-02-23 13:33 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-02-23 16:56 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-02-23 17:23 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-02-23 11:34 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-02-23 16:56 ` Michael Shields
2003-02-22 21:43 ` Paul Jarc
2003-02-23 5:03 ` Michael Shields
2003-02-23 10:28 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-02-23 11:38 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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