Re: Speeding up IMAP parsing

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca> writes:

> With the patch below applied, the time reduces further to 10.4 seconds.
> But I don't know if it will break things for others.  (I've used it for
> several months now without noticing a problem.)

Thanks; I've applied the patch and I guess we'll see...

> Interestingly, with my Dec 2009 version, the patch below reduces the
> time from 11.1 to 10.5 seconds, a bigger change than with git, and
> almost matching the git+patch time.
>
> Did the older nnimap.el use the read trick?  If not, then it must have
> been more efficient in some other way to come so close to the time
> that the current version uses.

Group entry doesn't use the `read' trick -- it's just flags parsing and
stuff.  I haven't really looked at the nnimap group entry efficiency;
I've mainly concentrated on `g' speed.

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