Matthew T. O'Connor wrote:
When was it decided that we are "going multithreaded".
No decision yet, afaik. I'm guessing Aaron's just getting exited about the idea... We're all mostly just awaiting the results from Leifs efforts, so we cn run our own performance checks. Seeing is believing, indeed.
All I have read is that Leif is working on a patch that includes a pthreads implementation. I have yet to see any evidence that the results are worth the effort. Remember that the additional effort is not just the initial implementation but also includes the additional maintenance since threaded code is more complicated and bugs more subtle and harder to track down.
Being somewhat intimate with the current imap codebase, I'm skeptical it can be done in a clean and maintainable manner. But given the size of the diff Leifs mentions, perhaps he has solved some of the problems I myself have been wrestling with :-)
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