Re: Incrementally filling up the view

[Dave Cridland <dave cridland net>]

On Wed Feb 14 01:17:54 2007, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> Dave was teasing me that his E-mail client can show the first 25 
> headers
> of a 50.000 messages sized mailbox at 1.38 seconds in his view.

Well, have to show off somehow. Real showing off would involve 
counting the octets from a cacheless state, where it has to load in 
its configuration over the network too.

> Although caused by the fact that he uses pipelining he can also 
> allow
> the user to already start working with the messages themselves, and 
> that
> this most likely wont be possible (unless I would start a new 
> connection
> to get the message while retrieval of the summary, in the 
> background,
> takes place) ... I did get incrementally filling up the view 
> working in
> the demo ui of tinymail. 
You can also fetch the summary data in smaller chunks, which allows a 
faster response time when the user wants to read a message (or 
whatever).

> I'm expecting all this to start working between now and a month and 
> demo
> -ready around FOSDEM.
>
> The good news is that Dave will be at FOSDEM. And I was hoping to 
> be the
> smartest IMAPper at FOSDEM this year. Damn :)

I won't be either - since Alexey Melnikov is also showing up.

Dave.
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