Excerpts from William Morgan's message of Fri Jan 25 17:52:20 +0100 2008: > Reformatted excerpts from John Bent's message of 2008-01-24: > > Excerpts from William Morgan's message of Thu Jan 24 22:59:43 -0700 2008: > > > - Mbox filehandle closing (currently every mbox gets its own > > > filehandle which is kept open for the duration of the program) > > > > Is this a good thing? I'd rather set my open filehandle limit really > > high and have them kept open. Isn't it slower to constantly have to > > reopen them? Well, I guess the unusual ones certainly don't need an > > open handle. > > It will introduce a very minor slowdown, but I don't think it will > really be that noticeable. And the current approach basically prevents > people from having large numbers of mbox sources, which is a little > contrary to the Sup philosophy of "put every email you've ever read in > one program."
I don't get link between having a lot of mails and a lot of mbox sources, for instance I have only one big mbox, and don't see the need for multiple sources (apart these backup considerations). -- Nicolas Pouillard aka Ertai
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