What is notmuch compact and should I use it?

[David Bremner]

Attic Hermit <fjdksl at cock.li> writes:

> David Bremner <david at tethera.net> writes:
>
>> There is some tradeoff: search should be faster after a compact, but
>> indexing many messages will likely be slower.
>
> Maybe I'm wrong, but is it meaning that it will be taking a long time to
> compact many messages, or after doing `notmuch compact`, indexing many
> new messages will be slower because of the compacted database?

The latter, according to the xapian documentation.

d