Re: [Evolution-hackers] ... and how camel should be

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj novell com>]

This example is total bollocks, you don't even understand how a uid is
used or what it even is. I've explained it to you a number of times now
and you still don't get it. UIDs are not guaranteed to be contiguous.

Jeff

On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 21:30 +0100, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 21:15 +0100, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 14:03 -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> 
> > > Do you think that's a problem?
> > 
> > For evolution, it might be a lesser problem than for camel. I'd like to
> > start using camel on mobile devices.
> 
> Let me illustrate this specific case . . .
> 
> Imagine .. a mobile device as 50 MB ram (that's a lot for some devices).
> 
> Now your library has a function like this:
> 
> GPtrArray *give_ids (void);
> 
> It will return pointers to 7MB  of strings like this:
> 
> "0", "1", "2", ... "10000"
> 
> Wouldn't it be better if I could simply do this then?
> 
> gint give_length (void);
> 
> for (int a=0; a < give_length(); a++)
> {
> 	/* or whatever fast implementation */
> 	gchar *id = g_strdup_printf ("%d", a);
> 
> 	/* my stuff */
> 
> 	g_free (id); 
> }
> 
> No? Because, that would safe me a 7 MB allocation on a device that has
> 50 MB of ram it REALLY wants to use for other purposes (believe me, if
> on such a device you don't have to waste it like that, you DON'T waste
> it like that).
> 
> Now .. I payed money for the memory in my desktop. Imagine EVERY
> application wasting 7MB of memory. At this moment I have 24 applications
> running. If they would all start doing things like that only ONCE, it
> would waste +- 168 MB of ram. That's +- 15 euros.
> 
> Now lets take a look at the "One Laptop Per Child" project. 
> 
> We can save some euros by fixing this flaw. We can make it possible to
> give poor children a very good E-mail client that uses camel.
> 
> Is it still not worth fixing?
> 
> 
> I "strongly" disagree.
> 
> 
-- 
Jeffrey Stedfast
Evolution Hacker - Novell, Inc.
fejj ximian com  - www.novell.com