🚀 go-pugleaf

Jamie Zawinski writes:
 > In message <9104300207.AA21963@rodan.UU.NET> Kyle Jones wrote:
 > >
 > > I'm thinking about it, but some sort of index of existing folder
 > > will have to be generated and kept up-to-date, or lookups will be
 > > sloooow.  
 > 
 > I don't know if this is what you're thinking of, but I don't think that doing
 > something like
 > 
 >   (set (intern (vm-message-id message) vm-message-id-hashtable) message)
 > 
 > for each message as a folder is read would be prohibitively slow.  Make the
 > hashtable local to each folder buffer, and keep a list of folder buffers, and
 > you can chase crosreferences of all folders which are in memory.

Yah, I was thinking of this as a handy way to get a hastable, but
you only get the folders that are in memory.  With Emacs' death-
at-8-meg memory limitation, keeping folders in memory will
exactly a deadly toll soon enough.