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Jan Vroonhof <vroonhof@math.ethz.ch> writes:

> > Well, there's excruciatingly slow (nnml) and horribly, unworkably slow 
> > (nnfolder).  The slowness in nnml with holes comes not from statting a 
> > gazillion files, but just from expanding (9 . 783739) to a looong list 
> > of numbers.  
> 
> Maybe it is time to support real ranges in the overview file?

Supporting ranges everywhere would be very nice (and that was my
original plan), but it would be Major Work.

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