[PATCH] Store "from" and "subject" headers in the database.

Daniel Schoepe daniel at schoepe.org
Sun Nov 6 13:41:32 PST 2011


On Sun,  6 Nov 2011 12:17:36 -0500, Austin Clements <amdragon at MIT.EDU> wrote:
> Search retrieves these headers for every message in the search
> results.  Previously, this required opening and parsing every message
> file.  Storing them directly in the database significantly reduces IO
> and computation, speeding up search by between 50% and 10X.

Just tried the patch and I can confirm that, after rebuilding the
database, it makes searches a lot faster.

Cheers,
Daniel
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