On Wed, 8 Feb 2012 16:43:15 +0000, David Edmondson <dme at dme.org> wrote: > Optimize thread tagging by combining all the tagging operations to a > single "notmuch tag" call. > > For threads in the order of tens or a hundred inbox tagged messages, > this gives a noticeable speedup. On two different machines, archiving > a thread of about 50 inbox tagged messages goes down from 10+ seconds > to about 0.5 seconds. > > The bottleneck is not within emacs; the same behaviour can be observed > in the CLI. This approach has the added benefit of being more > reliable: any of the individual tagging operations might face a locked > database, leading to partial results. > > This introduces a limitation to the number of messages that can be > archived at the same time (through ARG_MAX limiting the command > line). While at least on Linux this seems more like a theoretical > limitation than a real one, it could be avoided by archiving at most a > few hundred messages at a time. > > Based on code from Jani Nikula <jani at nikula.org>. > --- > > v4: > - Rebased after Dmitry's tagging changes (yay!). >
Now, that my tagging changes are pushed, the same effect can be (and should be) achieved by some code cleanup and function reuse. This patch is obsoleted by [1]. Regards, Dmitry [1] id:"1328719731-13402-1-git-send-email-dmitry.kurochkin at gmail.com" > emacs/notmuch-show.el | 18 +++++++++++------- > 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/emacs/notmuch-show.el b/emacs/notmuch-show.el > index faa9f9b..9294bc8 100644 > --- a/emacs/notmuch-show.el > +++ b/emacs/notmuch-show.el > @@ -1599,14 +1599,18 @@ argument, hide all of the messages." > (backward-button 1)) > > (defun notmuch-show-tag-thread-internal (tag &optional remove) > - "Add tag to the current set of messages. > + "Add TAG to the current set of messages. > > -If the remove switch is given, tags will be removed instead of > -added." > - (goto-char (point-min)) > - (let ((op (if remove "-" "+"))) > - (loop do (notmuch-show-tag-message (concat op tag)) > - until (not (notmuch-show-goto-message-next))))) > +If REMOVE is non-nil, TAG will be removed rather than added." > + (save-excursion > + (goto-char (point-min)) > + (let ((tag-op (concat (if remove "-" "+") tag)) > + (message-ids > + (loop collect (notmuch-show-get-message-id) > + until (not (notmuch-show-goto-message-next))))) > + (if message-ids > + (notmuch-tag (mapconcat #'identity message-ids " OR ") > + tag-op))))) > > (defun notmuch-show-add-tag-thread (tag) > "Add tag to all messages in the current thread." > -- > 1.7.8.3 > > _______________________________________________ > notmuch mailing list > notmuch at notmuchmail.org > http://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch