Re: [MORG] Why IMAP extensions are (not) used

[Mark Crispin <markrcrispin at panda.com>]

On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote:
> > If 350 SELECTs and 350 SEARCHes are unpleasantly slow, what makes you think 
> > that multimailbox search will be different?
> Not «will be», «is».
> The speedup (up to orders of magnitude depending on the search expression) 
> comes from two factors: The search itself is much better optimised, and 
> there's no need to compute those 350 UNSEENs, EXISTSs and RECENTs.

You are engaged in the fallacy of believing that an implementation aspect 
of your server is common to all other servers.

-- Mark --

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