On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 04:27:42PM -0700, Brendan Cully wrote: > On Wednesday, 04 April 2007 at 17:24, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > > On Wednesday, April 4 at 03:23 PM, quoth Brendan Cully: > > > Here's a patch that attempts to version the header cache more > > > accurately. It uses a little script to extract the type definitions > > > for the structures hcache saves, pipes them through an MD5, and uses > > > an unsigned long's worth of the result as a CRC. > > > > > > Comments? > > assuming that it actually works, ;) the idea seems reasonable. afaict, python is no build dependency yet, so a new configure check is needed. maybe it's not a good idea to use python instead of an (ugly ...) shell script in the first place ... dunno.
> > When it detects that the cache is outdated, does it delete it and > > create a new one, or does it still silently ignore the cache > > (requiring the user to guess why mutt is suddenly slower)? > > I haven't changed anything but the means by which it calculates the > CRC. > too bad. do you have any immediate plans to work on that? *hint* *hint* -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Chaos, panic, and disorder - my work here is done.