Re: Long time to exit summary buffer, possible speed enhancement?

[Colin Rafferty <craffert@spspme.ml.com>]

> Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no> writes:

>> Why, no.  Articles get increasing numbers as they arrive.  They will not
>> not interleave.  Hmm - except if the article number wraps around.  That
>> can happen, right?  So *big* holes in ranges must not be collapsed since
>> new articles may be arriving at the beginning of the hole.  Instead,
>> nonexisting article numbers should be removed from the beginning of a
>> range following a big hole, to make room for new articles.

I did not see the original message (mail problems over the weekend), but
it got me to thinking.  On my 32 bit machine, the maximum article number
in XEmacs is 134217727.  1+ this number is -134217728, which would
probably exercise a bug in Java Gnus.

On the other hand, assuming (pessimisticly) that we all move to 64 bit
machine within ten years (and square MAX_INT), I would have to receive
about 37000 messages per day in order to wrap around.

Even my black-hole newsgroup doesn't get more than 10k messages in a day
(and that is a very bad day indeed).

-- 
Colin