Re: Huge groups

[Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no>]

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

>> (I suspect that with the current backend interface this won't give any
>> speedups, since Gnus needs to hold the entire Summary buffer
>> information in memory to do the threading and scoring and stuff. And
>> even without doing any sort of profiling I'm gueesing that there is a
>> performance bottle neck here)

> Any reason why the necessary information to do threading and scoring
> could not go into the Overview-file, which in turns goes into a DBM
> file?

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.

But I haven't profiled anything, so I'm just guessing at this.