From: Justus Winter <4winter@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
To: Daniel Schoepe <daniel@schoepe.org>,
Philippe LeCavalier <support@plecavalier.com>,
notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: nomuch_addresses.py
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 09:15:09 -0000
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:15:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120221091509.8534.59492@thinkbox.jade-hamburg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fweamenf.fsf@schoepe.localhost>
Quoting Daniel Schoepe (2012-02-17 02:28:52) [emphasis mine]:
>Just for completeness: I'm using the nice nottoomuch-addresses.pl script
>[1] by Tomi Ollila *which doesn't require any bindings* and is incredibly
>fast (after generating an initial address database).
I don't get it. The perl script isn't using any library bindings,
mainly because there are no libnotmuch bindings for perl. *But* it
does call the notmuch binary which is worse:
* incredibly high overhead (fork&exec) compared to a simple function
call (plus maybe some kind of ffi)
* manual and error prone serialization of ''function arguments''
* manual and error prone deserialization of ''return values''
* very limited error reporting and handling capabilities
* any kind of resource (think handle to a xapian database) is lost if
the process exists resulting in further overhead if the binary is
called multiple times
I do get the feeling that it is perceived as desirable not to require
any kind of notmuch bindings (David once said something similar about
nmbug).
If that's the case I'd love to hear why and if there's anything we can
do about it.
Justus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-21 9:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-16 19:12 nomuch_addresses.py Philippe LeCavalier
2012-02-16 19:46 ` nomuch_addresses.py Jesse Rosenthal
2012-02-16 19:51 ` nomuch_addresses.py Philippe LeCavalier
2012-02-16 20:00 ` nomuch_addresses.py Jesse Rosenthal
2012-02-16 20:03 ` nomuch_addresses.py Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2012-02-17 1:28 ` nomuch_addresses.py Daniel Schoepe
2012-02-17 18:58 ` nomuch_addresses.py Tomi Ollila
2012-02-17 20:33 ` nomuch_addresses.py Sebastian Spaeth
2012-02-17 20:46 ` nomuch_addresses.py Tomi Ollila
2012-02-18 3:04 ` nomuch_addresses.py Philippe LeCavalier
2012-02-18 5:15 ` nomuch_addresses.py Tomi Ollila
2012-02-21 1:25 ` nomuch_addresses.py Philippe LeCavalier
2012-02-21 9:15 ` Justus Winter [this message]
2012-02-21 11:23 ` nomuch_addresses.py Tomi Ollila
2012-02-21 13:53 ` nomuch_addresses.py Daniel Schoepe
2012-02-21 16:33 ` nomuch_addresses.py Jesse Rosenthal
2012-02-22 13:07 ` nomuch_addresses.py Jani Nikula
2012-02-21 20:30 ` nomuch_addresses.py David Bremner
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