From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/5529 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joe Hildebrand Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Let's get effective! Date: 13 Mar 1996 13:11:37 -0700 Organization: Fuentez Systems Concepts, Inc. Sender: hildebra@arls2006.den.mmc.com Message-ID: References: Reply-To: hildjj@fuentez.com NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035146121 648 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:35:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:35:21 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.7.3/8.6.9) with SMTP id MAA05273 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 12:41:17 -0800 Original-Received: from ipcsun3.den.mmc.com (ipcsun3.den.mmc.com [160.205.18.31]) by ifi.uio.no with SMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 21:12:26 +0100 Original-Received: from arls2006.asas.den.mmc.com (arls2006.den.mmc.com) by ipcsun3.den.mmc.com (4.1/1.34.a) id AA06369; Wed, 13 Mar 96 13:11:51 MST Original-Received: by arls2006.asas.den.mmc.com (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA00177; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 13:11:48 -0700 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no X-Attribution: Joe In-Reply-To: Steven L Baur's message of 13 Mar 1996 10:46:12 -0800 Original-Lines: 21 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5529 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5529 > "Steven" == Steven L Baur writes: Steven> None of this means that effort should be relaxed on cutting Steven> down the excess garbage in Gnus. My tests indicate that Steven> Gnus easily defeats mmap mallocs at present. Well, that wasn't exactly what I meant. I was trying to suggest that gnus mmap the .overview file semi-directly, rather than going through lots of malloc stuff. The more I think about it, though, the less sure I am of the efficacy of that plan. At that point, it probably makes more sense for the overview files to be in gdbm format, or something. Hey! Hadn't there been some talk about a nngdbm backend? Didn't someone do a gdbm interface for emacs, that they were going to give to RMS? -- Joe Hildebrand Fuentez Systems Concepts hildjj@fuentez.com Lead Software Engineer "Breakfast recapitulates phylogeny" - Spider Robinson