From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: Why article numbers?
Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2003 00:49:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m37kcatjrz.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m38ywq9w20.fsf@multivac.cwru.edu>
prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes:
> I think the only advantage of integers over symbols is in representing
> large contiguous ranges. Can you give us some examples of places
> where compact representations are really essential?
Well, anywhere, basically.
You enter a group. The server says that the available articles are
50000-60000. You have a list of, er, ids. How many articles should
you fetch if the user wants all unread articles?
You want to mark the unseen messages as unseen. Keep a list of all
seen ids?
Etc. Integers are small and collapsible. IDs are not.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-08 23:49 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
2003-02-08 23:44 ` Paul Jarc
2003-02-08 23:49 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
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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