Re: [Pan-devel] Another big Pan code commit

[K. Haley]

Charles Kerr wrote:

> I've committed a big set of changes to attack bug #132477, excessive
> memory usage in large newgroups.
>
> The main change is that each multipart header from XOVER is now stored
> in an AttachmentPart struct, which holds the minimal unique info we
> need for each post (size, date, xref, message-id).  The Article
> struct's "threads" field has been split into two: "followups" and
> "attachments", where "attachments" is a list of AttachmentParts.  So
> no matter how many parts a multipart has, it's still just one Article.
>
> As a side-effect the ~/.pan/servername/groupname datafiles are about
> 50% smaller, and threading and header pane updates in large groups are
> absurdly fast.  *big grin*
>
> K. Haley: how big of a monkey wrench does this throw into your
> database schema?
I don't think it will a big problem, the biggest change will likely be
importing the new datafiles.  I'll do a cvs update this weekend and see
what changes are needed.  That will give me some time to track down a
new crash bug during import of the old data files.

PS. It would probably be best to target Glib & GTK 2.4.? for now.  I've
been hearing about warning dialogs that aren't being displayed causing
apps to lock up.  Also, I'm not aware a a windows port yet.

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