Use d_ino (struct dirent) only when available.
Implement a mode for scanning just maildirs (ie. the dirs with cur / new
in them). Use d_type (if available) to optimize that.
Remove mu4e-main-quit-or-bury and simply update mu4e-quit
to take a prefix which, if non-nil, make mu4e-quit
bury the buffer rather than quite mu4e.
Also make the mu4e check for an existing mu4e buffer, and if found,
switch to it rather start mu4e.
The default was 250000 but that led to problems on some systems with
limited memory, esp. since mu's indexing does quite a bit more than in
the olden days (e.g. html mail).
Fixes#2529.
When passing messages to mu, often we got a (parsed from string)
message-sexp from the message document; then appended some more
properties ("build_message_sexp").
Instead, we can do it in terms of the strings; this is _a little_
inelegant, but also much faster; compare:
(base)
[mu4e] Found 500 matching messages; 0 hidden; search: 1298.0 ms (2.60 ms/msg); render: 642.1 ms (1.28 ms/msg)
(with temp-file optimization (earlier commit)
[mu4e] Found 500 matching messages; 0 hidden; search: 1152.7 ms (2.31 ms/msg); render: 270.1 ms (0.54 ms/msg)
(with temp file optimize _and_ the string opt (this commit)
[mu4e] Found 500 matching messages; 0 hidden; search: 266.0 ms (0.53 ms/msg); render: 199.7 ms (0.40 ms/msg)
This makes queries where we don't need the sexp much faster; e.g.
before:
mu find "a" --include-related 47,51s user 2,68s system 99% cpu 50,651 total
after:
mu find "a" --include-related 7,12s user 1,97s system 87% cpu 10,363 total
Add a new configuration variable mu4e-mu-allow-temp-file, t by default,
which triggers the same optimization in the mu server.
It improves message rendering speed:
I.e. without:
[mu4e] Found 500 matching messages; 0 hidden; search: 1298.0 ms (2.60 ms/msg); render: 642.1 ms (1.28 ms/msg)
with:
[mu4e] Found 500 matching messages; 0 hidden; search: 1152.7 ms (2.31 ms/msg); render: 270.1 ms (0.54 ms/msg)
As a useful side-effect, this also:
Fixes#1802.
It can be faster to feed big mu -> mu4e data, such as contacts are
message headers through a temp-file instead directly though stdout;
implement this, and add the server parameter --allow-temp-file.
Implement this the "contacts" and "find" commands.
For expanding shell options (with expand_path / wordexp)
Note that e.g. in zsh: --maildir=~/Maildir is handled (program receives
--maildir=/home/user/Maildir) but e.g. bash does not do that, and the
program receives the literal '~/Maildir'
We expanded this in mu earlier, so let's do that again.
Dirk-Jan C. Binnema
Christophe Troestler
Daniel Fleischer