On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Markus Wiederkehr <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Robert Burrell Donkin > <[email protected]> wrote: >> what about https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MIME4J-6? >> >> should this be addressed? closed? moved to 0.7? > > I don't like the idea very much. Not that it wouldn't be nice to have > but the necessary changes in Mime4J would be too drastic in my > opinion. > > I think the idea behind this issue is to improve performance. I wonder > if that's even possible considering that it would require two passes > to fully parse a message. > > Also not every InputStream is capable of telling the current position > and seeking to a position and opening a new InputStream from there > (the basic idea behind JavaMail's SharedInputStream). So in many cases > it would be necessary to copy the message to a storage that is capable > of creating such special input streams before parsing. This would > further degrade performance. > > And last but not least I think Stefano's comment on potential nested > encodings is a valid concern.
AIUI this is related to concerns about memory usage for big documents but i'm not sure that the proposal is the best solution i'm tempted just to move to 0.7 for the moment - robert --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
