Re: spam.el is a bit aggressive loading/saving spam-stat data

[David Z Maze <dmaze@MIT.EDU>]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
> On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, dmaze@MIT.EDU wrote:
>> Is it straightforward to change this so that (spam-stat-load)
>> happens once when Gnus starts up, and then (spam-stat-save) is
>> called, say, along with everything else when I press 's' from the
>> group buffer?  I'd think this would noticably improve splitting
>> performance for me.
>
> How about spam-stat-load on summary entry, and spam-stat-save on
> summary exit if spam-use-stat is on?

spam-stat-load needs to be called before splitting happens.  My
understanding is that, once it's loaded, it doesn't need to be
reloaded or saved until Emacs exits.

> That seems like the right place to put those hooks, and you won't
> have to hit 's' unnecessarily.

The same code gets called from gnus-group-save-newsrc and
gnus-group-exit, right?  If spam-stat-save really does need to be
called often, then calling it on summary exit makes sense, but
otherwise saving it at the same time as .newsrc.eld would minimize
(possibly slow) disk access.

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