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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
> prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes:
>> 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)).
>
> That's true.  But why would you need something like that?

To make the 'seen range list smaller - in .newsrc.eld, in nnml and
nnfolder's mark storage, and in memory.  There's wasted space there.


paul