On Oct 6, 2009, at 5:28 AM, Glenn Linderman wrote:
I observe that binary transport is more efficient than 7bit or 8bit.
A few principles that I think we should adopt as far as efficiency and performance go.
I am not concerned about performance. Yes, we want to make things as fast as possible, but it's more important to be as right as possible. Look at some of the tricks that the parser has to jump through to properly handle MIME nesting. Yuck, and not fast, but mostly right (it could be improved but I think we're darn close).
Memory footprint efficiency is very important, in some cases. I don't particularly care about headers or some of the more compact MIME body formats (perhaps like text/*), but some are very problematic. For example, the Twisted guys have told me that can't use the email package because let's say you read a 10MB image/jpg MIME part. You really can't store thousands of these in memory at a time! So again that dictates that our APIs have to support external storage hook points, for parsing, generating, accessing MIME parts on disk or in a database, etc. It's fine if by default we store everything in memory, but we have to at least give applications the ability to parse straight from the wire, store some parts on disk, and still return Message objects that are completely consistent.
-Barry
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