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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: Displaying large message takes loooong
From:       Don Sanders <sanders () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-10-14 8:36:03
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On Monday 14 October 2002 06:27, Marc Mutz wrote:
> On Sunday 13 October 2002 16:26, Don Sanders wrote:
> > On Saturday 12 October 2002 01:45, Martin Koller wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> > > (Is that what Don enhanced with his zero copy patch in
> > > make_it_cool ?)
> >
> > Short answer, yes that is what the zero-copy patch is for.
>
> <snip>
>
> Hmm, if the display engine doesn't cope with CRLF that comes out of
> a base64 encoded text/* part, where does zero-copy come into play
> here, please?

Keeping it short, firstly if fixes the most common cases of excessive 
memory consumption when displaying a message with large attachments. 
Secondly it demonstrates a general approach for reducing unnecessary 
memory consumption when handling messages, and that approach is 
applicable here.

Don.

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