From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/49951 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Why article numbers? Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2003 21:38:32 +0100 Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <841y2jzrgm.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1044736675 10346 80.91.224.249 (8 Feb 2003 20:37:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2003 20:37:55 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18hbjU-0002gR-00 for ; Sat, 08 Feb 2003 21:37:52 +0100 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 18hbkT-0003wP-00; Sat, 08 Feb 2003 14:38:53 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 08 Feb 2003 14:39:50 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (sclp3.sclp.com [66.230.238.2]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA25461 for ; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 14:39:35 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 32735 invoked by alias); 8 Feb 2003 20:38:33 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 32730 invoked from network); 8 Feb 2003 20:38:33 -0000 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (80.91.224.244) by 66.230.238.6 with SMTP; 8 Feb 2003 20:38:33 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18hbsF-0005SK-00 for ; Sat, 08 Feb 2003 21:46:55 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 15 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: quimbies.gnus.org Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1044737215 20371 80.91.231.2 (8 Feb 2003 20:46:55 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 8 Feb 2003 20:46:55 GMT Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Playing: Pram's _Dark Island_: "Leeward" Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAElBMVEVRUVH6+vonJycPDw+c nJzR0dF2zxW8AAACHUlEQVR4nFWTUa60IAyFm97O+08i76S6AAMbYCbwLjew/638p+jMeI0xykd7 TluklCKxRl13yu1fSunpD1VdCUDXhDsQtV8D/QWgAElxawpZ5SfZPr4i7DLw0jDfHwYSxfkRSIU1 vFLaOfKZyiRiYC2IqCAkl0acMhoKNgbYEOU7iNLxndLm/HYCIp7GHoeBWLs8TiCZV4t4vrAB2zJs T7B1XiMCGxOVXuqS6Q3wDCRepZQ6RhsTrBT6akqPJRhoY3RiEyEt08LjQP6SLR3RaZc0Yu1R6CcI J9STJyHUBiAipJRXAxwonAANL6WgW9iAl7wqJmRAUEzNvGcZzjnfOZ0RCJAML6HYOq5yaWwANdvj XHd+GmWVQGVY+nYB13U6EZOE/DsAgK00NU8U0I4P8DnYYUCmDOX6yYQQOgG8yn0d8myADYz7uh9M 6xVRxk3DecLMURitcEaw5ccXYLqDIkx1qn6UcWpl2rF38C4ly0s2i+htAmuFgZFLbg4Rbnl65w7U IAOgQLyYBkKGbwDtEJjba8UxuEwtoAe5LH28toHrXaJH2ywVsgA01z+FZAN2OAwgdfUXOAywIXQE juryvERqs/OI0TJS+f5poy8jU7CJKFL57wSdHRrGz8QG+neCE9iRZpLmv3bRFbRU12hHC2XchusB YsK/mQzcRmXg/M9l3DO5pbzB9ifA9Q/Y/wRMVxeodzC+IN6Plcd6+Q906qTWbfOjlwAAAABJRU5E rkJggg== User-Agent: Gnus/5.090015 (Oort Gnus v0.15) Emacs/21.2.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:IXlnIT3oNQwKOVJf9YkT2Lq8CVA= Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:49951 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:49951 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