Re: Support for the size attribute in TnyHeader

[Philip Van Hoof <spam pvanhoof be>]

ps. Revision 1414 is the diff for this

On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 09:11 +0100, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> And note that I might change this to become rounded on kilobytes. 
> 
> Reasoning for this: in bytes, with the internal field being a 16 bit
> integer, it would mean that a maximum of 65535 bytes would stil be
> correct. Anything above would overflow (it's handled as an unsigned
> integer internally, so it wouldn't turn negative).
> 
> The guint tny_header_get_message_size (TnyHeader *header) API will still
> return bytes, but rounded to 1024 (I will multiply it with 1024 in the
> libtinymail-camel implementation).
> 
> Other than that is all this just internal (nothing to worry about for
> most people, except that right now only 16 bits are available).
> 
> The reason why it's 16 bits is because the field is shared with the
> flags attribute in memory (each consumes 16 bits of a 32 bit integer).
> 
> I don't see a point in having a byte-correct size value. I believe that
> with kilobyte precision 99.999999999999999% of all people will be
> satisfied. 
> 
> 
> Especially if you know that byte precision would consume more memory
> (with data alignment in mind, this can go up to 4 or 8 bytes per header,
> depending on the architecture, on 10,000 headers that's 400kb of
> memory).
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 08:31 +0100, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> > I added support for the size attribute in TnyHeader. The API goes like
> > this:
> > 
> > guint tny_header_get_message_size (TnyHeader *header)
> > 
> > It works on both POP and IMAP and on newly written headers, once they
> > have been put in a TnyMsg, too (or, should .. but please test this new
> > functionality. It's a candidate for a nice unit test).
> > 
> > This is in preparation for a size-limited retrieval strategy (which is
> > different from partial retrieval in that it limits on message size).
> > 
> > 
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