What is notmuch compact and should I use it?

[Attic Hermit]

All things are clear now. Thank you!

David Bremner <david at tethera.net> writes:

> 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
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Attic Hermit