I have to wonder if it's even worth ever merging the mmap hack into Evolution at all. If the plan is to finish Zucchi's disk-summary branch, which also solves the memory problems (afaik) as well as:
1. introducing an API for using cursors to get at message infos 2. better designed on-disk format that uses B-Trees the problem with philip's mmap file format is that the strings that will be hit for sorting/viewing/etc are all spread out over a huge number of pages. I just see this being re-examined later to try and design the format to better optimise it by compacting all the strings into a strtab type thing. I also don't like how it has to reload the summary anytime new messages arrive. I just don't get the feeling this is really all that well thought out and it scares me. I'd just hate to see a rush job come out of this Jeff On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 13:26 -0500, Federico Mena Quintero wrote: > On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 18:29 +0200, Philip Van Hoof wrote: > > > I'm waiting for the decision (yours) of making this optional using a > > compilation flag or at run-time. > > Let's do this in the usual manner: > > 0. Polish the patch in the usual way: make sure it follows the > indentation and naming conventions of the surrounding code, etc. > > 1. Branch evolution-data-server into HEAD (development, with Philip's > patch), and the stable branch (without the patch). > > 2. Make the patch *mandatory* in HEAD, so that it gets a good amount of > testing. > > 3. ??? > > 4. Profit!!! > > I'd suggest that (3) become "write a good stress-test suite for Camel, > independent of Evolution". We need that anyway. > > Novell already has a bunch of LDTP stuff to test the Evo mailer from the > user's viewpooint - run those tests on the patched version to see how > well they work. [Varadhan, those tests are already part of our QA > process, aren't they?] > > Federico > > _______________________________________________ > Evolution-hackers mailing list > Evolution-hackers@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers -- Jeffrey Stedfast Evolution Hacker - Novell, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.novell.com _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list