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Hannu Koivisto <azure@iki.fi> writes:

> [...] The primary reason why I was
> thinking about backend was the spooling phase.  That's the primary
> problem I'm seeing now -- it has slowed down a lot while my folders
> have grown larger and I don't think Gnus needs to do anything that
> would prevent scaling in this case. [...]

Maybe the filesystem prevents scaling?  Aren't huge directories
hideously slow in Unix?

kai
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