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Hi Peter,

@24 May 2002, 17:57:39 +0200 (16:57 UK time) Peter Palmreuther wrote
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PP>>> This would open up a virtual folder here, containing round about 17000
PP>>> messages, without any folder index so The Bat! would have to crawl through
PP>>> all folders manually and building the index for 17000 mails 'on the fly'
PP>>> ... No sire, thanks :-)

JS>> Well, my TBUDL folder contains 16500 messages, and The Bat takes one
JS>> second to display it (except when it's clicked the first time - then
JS>> it takes about 5-8 seconds)

> Because: ... yeah ... because? Simply because this folder is
> _indexed_. The MESSAGES.TBI file causes this less time when opening
> a folder ... it's the index used for message list displaying.

> But we were talking about a virtual folder ... w/o an index file.
> This index would have to be build 'on the fly' ... and this, for
> sure, would take a little bit more time than 1 second :-)

> P.S.: My Debian-User-list folder contains only 12k messages and opens up in
>       1-2 seconds too, I know about the speed improvement of indexing files :-)

Just in case anyone who doesn't know about the "content encoding"
issue when posting on Listar wants to read what you wrote and doesn't
have a decoder handy...

- --
Cheers -- .\\arck D. Pearlstone -- List moderator
TB! v1.60m-14F4B4B2 on Windows 2000 5.0.2195 Service Pack 2

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