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Lars Syrstad <lars@no482rs1.aventura.no> writes:

> | The necessary information is there already.  I just think that the
> | bottleneck is after this information has been turned into lisp lists
> | so that Gnus can process it, not in the file format itself, and not in
> | the reading and the parsing of the .overview file format.
> 
> Yes, but couldn't the lisp lists be stored?

The threading is done via obarrays, which do not have a read syntax.

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