Re: nnmail-split-it

[Paul Franklin <paul@cs.washington.edu>]

>>>>> David Moore writes:

 > 	And a much better fix would be to preparse the message headers,
 > to allow much faster comparisons, as it's really slow currently with
 > lots of split rules.

Hmm.  I wrote some elisp code to do splitting like this.  I didn't
distribute it because:

* I realized that the bottleneck was disk access time (over NFS).

* I heard that elisp operations on buffers tend to be faster than
  operations on strings.  (Tracking start/end points would help this,
  but either make it less useful to me or more complex.)

It generates a alist of headers, unwrapping lines within headers and
separating values from duplicate headers with "\n".  You then match
with a header or multiple ones concatenated (very useful, for me at
least).  I never compared them with the default split rules, but I'm
fairly sure that this code is tight enough that it's very unlikely to
be a bottleneck.

If you're interested in the code, drop me a line.

--Paul