On November 11, 1999 at 23:25, Jeff Breidenbach wrote:
> A long time ago, there was a discussion of making MHonArc
> work with windowing - for example, having new messages only
> thread against the most recent thousand messages in an archive.
> The idea was that things might go quicker for small additions to
> large archives.
>
> Is this idea still kicking around?
Yep, but on the back burner. With current load at my paying job
and some recent bugs and suggestions reported, it may be awhile.
I have several messages I have yet to really address and respond
to about MHonArc.
> The reason I ask, is that I am
> thinking about MHonArc performance again, and I see the possible
> improvements as:
>
> a) switch to a better filesystem like reiserfs
> b) faster hardware, both storage and processor(s)
> c) split up big archives
>
> If windowing is a possibility in the long term, I'll
> let a and b and keep me busy.
I think it is a possibility. The challenge is dealing with
threading. Also, such a feature will definitely have some limitations
like: Can not use REVERSE and TREVERSE, OTHERINDEXES will probably
be unusable, older message removal may not be supported, database
recovering maybe limited (or at least difficult to implement), etc.
--ewh
