Michael Elkins wrote: > > I'd be curious to get some feedback on my header caching patch for > maildir folders (can be found at http://www.sigpipe.org:8080/mutt/).
(thanks to michael for helping me to get this to compile)... anyway finally got this to work. note that you have to put '--enable-cache' in your configure args. also, the libdb2 include file on debian didn't have 'db_create' (which configure uses to test if the db stuff is working); s/db_create/db_open/g fixed that.. so if you have and older berkley db include file, you might need to do that. me figured it out so i think he is going to put something more generic in the patch perhaps. the header caching thing seems to speed things up by about double it does take a fair amount longer the first time (while it's building the db, i assume) zugzug% time /usr/bin/mutt -f mail/Trash-010202/ /usr/bin/mutt -f mail/Trash-010202/ 1.06s user 0.27s system 69% cpu 1.922 total zugzug% time ./src/build/mutt-1.3.26/mutt -f mail/Trash-010202/ ./src/build/mutt-1.3.26/mutt -f mail/Trash-010202/ 2.32s user 0.44s system 87% cpu 3.165 total if i remove the db file, time is: /usr/bin/mutt -f mail/Trash-010202/ 3.15s user 1.06s system 81% cpu 5.163 total this is for a folder with about 6k messages. the subjective time it takes to open is a bit longer than the time reported here. in any event, there's definitely a lot of improvement here. personally i think it would be great if this made it into the main source tree before 1.4, but i realize some people might object to the caching thing. w
