Re: Cache/Agent unification

[prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc)]

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
> Try profiling gnus-range-* and enter a large group, last time I did
> this quite some time was spent expanding/collapsing/merging ranges.
> (And ranges were supposedly added to speed things up plain integer
> lists as well.)

They were supposed to speed things up, sure.  But if Gnus is spending
so much time on them, is it clear that they *do* speed things up?
Expanding and collapsing would be gone if we stopped using integers;
merging could still be done quickly with obarrays, I think.
prin1-to-string is helpful - or else we could say that articles must
be identified by strings, which probably wouldn't be much of a burden
on backends.


paul