From: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
To: Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: Improved search speed by 2.5X
In-Reply-To: <20101116161842.GA2439@mit.edu>
References: <20101116161842.GA2439@mit.edu>
User-Agent: Notmuch/0.5 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/23.2.1
	(i486-pc-linux-gnu)
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:06:50 -0800
Message-ID: <87vd3xdr5h.fsf@yoom.home.cworth.org>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-=";
	micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"
Precedence: list

--=-=-=
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:18:43 -0500, Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU> wrot=
e:
> 'Lo.  I've been toying with switching to notmuch for a while, but the
> speed of search has been holding me back.  Perhaps I should upgrade
> the archaic machine I'm trying to run notmuch on, but I figured
> optimizing search would be a good way for me to cut my teeth on
> notmuch's code.

Hey, if you're going to keep optimizing notmuch, then I say, keep the
old machine! :-)

> Does this all seem reasonable?  My code passes the test suite [1], so
> I believe it to be fairly sound.

Yes. It all sounds quite good. Patches please!

> [1] Except for 2 emacs tests that depend on author order.  What order
> are matched authors *supposed* to be in?

There's an existing bug with author order, (sadly codified in some
current test cases). So this should be a good excuse for fixing that.

=2DCarl

=2D-=20
carl.d.worth@intel.com

--=-=-=
Content-Type: application/pgp-signature

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQFM4tZK6JDdNq8qSWgRAoCWAJ9XJzFqPP2RDBMKV4M/dtm3wlvKhQCgn8XL
k5rWplfvuJNmdHyq+0BJA3M=
=G0wc
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
--=-=-=--