Re: [Evolution-hackers] strtok camel from evolution-data-server

["Veerapuram Varadhan" <vvaradhan novell com>]

On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 08:26 +0000, Philip Van Hoof  wrote:
> It's also that I recently learned about posix_madvise for my camel-
> folder-summary.c mmap() idea. The only way, afaics, to make it
> possible
> to at the right time invoke the right posix_madvise on the addr
> pointer
> of the mmap, is to expose a new API to the CamelFolder:
> 
>         -> the behaviour of the program in relation to the addr
> pointer of the
> mmap() would change from sequential to random (this is what
> posix_madvise allows you to tweak) when for example sorting happens.
> It's, however, ui code that knows when sorting is happening or is
> going
> to happen. 
Every little change to a message, like marking it
read/unread/important/flagging etc will result in mmap'ed write, which
in turn has overhead on performance, may it be sorting or other
message-list operations.

mmap() in camel-folder-summary.c is not acceptable.  A proposal that
EXTENDS the current architecture to support small-devices ALSO, will be
more interesting.

The professional way of achieving this is to extend camel_folder_summary
into say, camel_mmapped_folder_summary and camel_folders use either
camel_folder_summary or camel_mmaped_folder_summary based on the
options/flags set by the application.

V. Varadhan

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