On Apr 3, 2012 12:20 AM, "Jameson Graef Rollins" <jrollins@finestructure.net> wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 02 2012, Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> wrote: > > Batch tagging brings performance and atomicity by opening and closing the > > db only once. The hex encoding handles insane message ids and tags. > > Otherwise there should be no difference. > > I can maybe see performance in terms of opening and closing the db only > once, but atomicity? Not sure I see how that is improved. Err, I meant locking, sorry. Nobody else is able to alter the db while batch tagging is in progress. > > And shouldn't we be able to improve the handling of command line > arguments so that we get the same encoding handling on the command line > as we would from stdin? > > jamie.