2.5 wish list (was Re: pre-2.4 (was Re: buffindexed jumbo patch) )

[Jeffrey M. Vinocur]

On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, Russ Allbery wrote:

> Note that if we can do this, expire becomes *much* faster.  The only
> reason why expire currently has to walk through *all* of the articles in
> the spool and check their existence is because of cancels.  If innd always
> notifies overview of cancels, there's no need to stat every article during
> expire unless the user specifically requests it (because they've deleted
> articles manually or something), which takes away the part that makes
> expire take the longest.

Wouldn't we also get the behavior of nnrpdcheckart without the speed hit?  
Boy, that would be nice.

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Jeffrey M. Vinocur
jeff at litech.org