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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: Holes in article sequence
Date: 09 Jul 1999 19:06:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3yagpg3bi.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Hrvoje Niksic's message of "07 Jul 1999 04:27:01 +0200"

Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:

> Now, if you have a big hole in your article range -- e.g. your article
> range is 128 - 12300 because you ticked article no. 128 -- total
> expiry will stat tens of thousands of non-existant files every time 
> you leave the group.  That tends to get a bit slow.

One could speed things up by having the backend look at what articles
exist in the group, and then iterate over that instead of the other
way around.  That would be much, much quicker for groups with big
"holes" in them.  It might be slower in other situations, though.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen


  parent reply	other threads:[~1999-07-09 17:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-07-07  1:13 François Pinard
1999-07-07  2:27 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1999-07-07 17:49   ` Rob Browning
1999-07-09 17:06   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
1999-07-09 17:11     ` Kai.Grossjohann
1999-07-09 18:20       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-07-09 17:25     ` François Pinard
1999-07-09 18:26       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-07-09 22:34         ` Kai.Grossjohann
1999-07-11  9:03           ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-07-12  3:02         ` Hrvoje Niksic
1999-08-27 17:21           ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-08-28 17:55           ` Jan Vroonhof
     [not found]           ` <m3yaexdtre.fsf@quimb <byemgnx00v.fsf@bolzano.math.ethz.ch>
1999-09-25  6:45             ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-07-12 21:16         ` jonkv
1999-07-11 14:13   ` Hallvard B Furuseth

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