[pmmail-list] time to clear trash - performance

[Frank Winkler @home]

On Sun, 07 Oct 2001 01:27:48 -0700 (PDT), Kris Sorem Sr wrote:

 >Roughly about 5 seconds per message. Very slow. I disagree that the
 >software must read part of each message. The <Trash> folder <folder.bag>
 >file contains all the required information i.e. message date (third field
 >of each record) and the message file name ( eleventh field of each
 >record). Parse the <folder.bag> file for qualifying message records.
 >Non-qualifying records can be written to a temporary file in the same
 >folder. A qualifying record has the file name to delete. Delete the file.
 >When the entire <folder.bag> file has been parsed, close the file and
 >delete. Rename the temporary file as the new <folder.bag> file. Done. Only
 >one file is read once and one file is written once.

Nearly perfect - just omit the temporary file and keep this information in 
memory. Write it to the bag file afterwards.

Regards

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