On Sun, 6 Nov 2011 12:17:36 -0500, Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU> wrote: > This is a rebase and cleanup of Istvan Marko's patch from > id:m3pqnj2j7a.fsf@zsu.kismala.com > > Search retrieves these headers for every message in the search > results. Previously, this required opening and parsing every message > file. Storing them directly in the database significantly reduces IO > and computation, speeding up search by between 50% and 10X. Hey, Austin. This is a very nice patch. Short and sweet, a really nice performance improvement, and a nice gentle fallback. I just rebuilt my database and I can definitely see the improvements. Search results are incredibly snappy, and the resultant database is only about 8% bigger. I fully endorse this being pushed. jamie.