Re: [Pan-devel] Re: [Pan-users] Speed of pan

[Charles Kerr]

On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 07:16:01AM -0600, Jeff Vian wrote:
> I like your idea Jeff.
> Why does the article list need to show the cached articles at all for 
> those cached from an earlier session?
> 
> If the scenario as Jeff mentions is followed then:
> 1. user requests download
> 2. pan checks cache
>    if cached,  use the cached copy
>    if not cached, download it
> Regardless of the option in #2, mark it as cached in the list for this 
> session.
> 
> This would eliminate a LOT of overhead in scanning the cache on startup 
> and the only thing lost AFAICT would be the cache icons at startup time.

Those cache icons are pretty important for offline reading sessions...
the setup you describe would make offline reading nearly impossible.