🚀 go-pugleaf

In message <9110111754.AA03244@rodan.UU.NET> Kyle Jones wrote:
>
>  > On this topic, would it make sense to have a command that physically
>  > reorders the mailbox with the current ordering/grouping?  It would
>  > save some time reordering the mailbox each time it's opened, if
>  > nothing else.
> 
> Message reordering is generally quite fast at startup, so unless
> someone is seeing gross delays I see no point in physically
> rearranging the folder itself.

It's useful if you want to later view that folder through a different mail
reader (which I never do) or if you often find yourself visiting folders as
normal files in order to search for things (which I often do.)  When a folder
has >500 messages, VM's startup time is substantial.  On a Sparc2 with a
folder of about 900 messages, it looks like reading the file is about 6
seconds, VMifying it is about 20 seconds, and generating a summary is over 
a minute.

By the way, I think it would be pretty simple to make my vm-sort.el able to
sort according to the "grouping" order: in fact, I think using identity as
the sort-predicate would do it.

	-- Jamie