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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Kmail slow
From:       Michael Matz <matzmich () cs ! tu-berlin ! de>
Date:       2000-06-09 21:18:03
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Hi,

On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Rik Hemsley wrote:
> > Thats easy too :) In each message store a pointer (or msg-ID) to the
> > sibling message. So if you have a parent P, you get the first child C by
> > P->child, and all other children by following C->sibling. (like
> > for (c=p->child; c; c=c->sibling) {do_something_with(c);} )
> 
> Are you volunteering to write the algorithm to set those sibling references
> up ? :)

Yes. After KDE 2.0, like you ;) (At least if I remember by then, or
somebody reminds me)

> Actually, it's not really a good plan, as messages don't have siblings,
> they only have parents (specified in 'References' headers), so it would
> be a weird model to use.

You can never have enough data about a graph and relationship between
nodes ;) With this one could implement a fairly fast threading system.
Note that I never used empath or kmail, so I don't know anything about the
implementation as it is now, may be its efficient enough.


Ciao,
Michael.

 
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