Re: Efficiency issues/thoughts

[email protected] writes:

> I'd have to adapt knowledge_base.mh for the gnus environment, but
> that's not the real problem; the real problem is simply that in the
> last 48 hours, I've gotten totally addicted to being able to put the
> first message of a thread into its own class, and have the rest of the
> messages which show up over the day turn up in that class.  I can't go
> back now ;-)

how do you do this?  you must have done something to integrate ifile
with gnus, and as a gnews newbie and ifile user i must see that!
please!

> (What amplifies the problem is that what I think is the "right way" to
> hook ifile into gnus has me invoking ifile twice for every message ---
> once with -q to get a recommendation, and later with -i to assert the
> final decision.)

i did the same for quite some time, but nowadays i use -Q, because
ifile rarely errs if you have seeded your database properly, and also
i can get numbers on how often this happens.  so i never call ifile
directly, only over a script that increments a counter.  if i get at
that message later and i see it was filed wrong, i decrement this
first number and increment the error number.

the net effect is a negligable decrease in performance and a big boost
for usability, which is what counts for me.  also, the success rate is
currently > 99%, so the additional write done by -Q is worth it.

clemens