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Date: | 2007-04-29 (15:43) |
From: | Oliver Bandel <oliver@f...> |
Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] mboxlib reloaded ;-) |
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 11:39:11AM +0100, Richard Jones wrote: > On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 12:58:16PM +0200, Oliver Bandel wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 08:56:28AM +0100, Richard Jones wrote: > > > On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 01:12:20AM +0200, Oliver Bandel wrote: > > > > On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 05:29:11PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote: > > > > > The source for COCANWIKI[1] contains extensive support for threading > > > > > of mail messages, based on JWZ's algorithm: > > > > > > > > > > http://www.jwz.org/doc/threading.html > > > > > > > > Nice... you speak of an optimized algorithm for threading. > > > > I didn't explored your solution nor did I explored your > > > > paper in detail (tomorrow I think I have the time to do it), > > > > > > I should point out that the algorithm is due to esteemed hacker[1] > > > Jamie Zawinski (http://jwz.org) who used it in Netscape versions 1 > > > through 3. They got C++/OO group-think disease from Netscape 4 and > > > above (the rot continues to this day). > > > > When I think about netscape, I think about the terrible way, > > how it handles newsgroups.... > > ...when doing a resort of the newsgroup-entries it's extremely slow. > > That's my point - Netscape <= 3 was very fast. > Ah, oh,OK, I see.... you wrote versions 1 through 3 were fast, and these versions used the algorithm you talked about... right? Ciao, Oliver