From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/41259 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nnml/nnfolder marks faster Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 05:28:08 -0500 Organization: What did you have in mind? A short, blunt, human pyramid? Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87lmjki4b5.fsf@uwo.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035176682 5153 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 05:04:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:04:42 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 13509 invoked from network); 31 Dec 2001 10:29:05 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 31 Dec 2001 10:29:05 -0000 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 16KzgO-0006bN-00; Mon, 31 Dec 2001 04:28:40 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 31 Dec 2001 04:28:31 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id EAA09683 for ; Mon, 31 Dec 2001 04:28:20 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 13495 invoked by alias); 31 Dec 2001 10:28:18 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 13490 invoked from network); 31 Dec 2001 10:28:18 -0000 Original-Received: from multivac.student.cwru.edu (HELO multivac.cwru.edu) (qmail-remote@129.22.96.25) by gnus.org with SMTP; 31 Dec 2001 10:28:18 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 1156 invoked by uid 500); 31 Dec 2001 10:28:30 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Mon, 31 Dec 2001 11:07:46 +0100") Mail-Copies-To: nobody Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 22 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/20.7 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:41259 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:41259 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote: > prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes: >> Well, then, there could be a function that recompresses a range by >> looking for consecutive entries, rather than by expanding and >> unexpanding. That could be applied to 'seen. Right? > > There are functions to merge ranges without uncompressing them, if > that's what you mean. I don't think it is. I'm thinking of a function which takes a single range list and returns the smallest range list representing the same set of numbers, and which doesn't eat as much memory as (gnus-compress-sequence (gnus-uncompress-range range)). > But there's no problem in the `seen' handling (except the .marks > stuff), I think. I was just explaining why they had to be treated > specially. Right, that's the problem this function would help solve. paul