Re: [PATCH] Fix format_headers_sprinter to return all headers

Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix format_headers_sprinter to return all headers

Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2019 11:49:04 +0200

To: David Bremner, Johan Parin, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc: Johan Parin

From: Jani Nikula


On Sat, 09 Nov 2019, David Bremner <david@tethera.net> wrote:
> Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> writes:
>
>> On Sat, 09 Nov 2019, Johan Parin <johanparin@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Modify format_headers_sprinter so that it returns all headers in the
>>> sexp, instead of a fixed set of headers.
>>
>> I have to deal with plenty of long threads that already take a very long
>> time to open in notmuch-emacs. How's this going to impact the emacs
>> interface performance? For example the patch mail I'm replying to has
>> more header content than body content. There are tons of headers that I
>> can't imagine being useful to anyone.
>
>  Can we benchmark this somehow? I think we have suitable threads in the
>  LKML corpus, but the challenge is timing emacs in some sensible way.

notmuch-emacs performance tests? :o

I can of course try this stuff to get a gut feeling, but it's subjective
and doesn't really scale. :)

BR,
Jani.
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