[Evolution] re: My first try with evolution

[NotZed <notzed helixcode com>]

> It did take a very long time to make the index.

With this machine it summarises and indexes around .5-1MB/second.

I might be able to maybe double that by lazily writing out
the x-evolution headers afterwards (or at expunge), on the other
hand, it should only need to be done completely once (unless
something fails) (although right now it will rebuild a little
too readily).  I dont think it can be made to really go much
faster than that though.

> > The searching took a long time too (larry is about to commit something
> > which might speed this up).  It was funny to see the shortcut bar sliding
> > along while the mail part's UI was blocked :)
>
> Are these asynchronous actions?

No.  It will require ... ta da ... threads.

But right now most of the time (like >>90%, more the bigger the
mailbox is) is spent with e-table rendering the new message list.