From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc)
Subject: Re: Why article numbers?
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2003 18:44:33 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m38ywq9w20.fsf@multivac.cwru.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m34r7ev77b.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sat, 08 Feb 2003 21:38:32 +0100")
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
> Gnus deals with groups that commonly have hundreds of thousands of
> articles in them. Doing anything but integers will be too slow.
If we only allow symbols, we can still use eq, assq, etc., but we
still get all the benefits of using arbitrary objects as identifiers.
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?
paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-08 23:44 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 [this message]
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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