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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] WIP: remove all non-prefixed-terms (and stemmed
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David Bremner <david@tethera.net> writes:

> The testing here is not really suitable for production, since we export
> a function just for testing.  It would be possible to modify the test
> framework to test functions in notmuch-private.h, but this was the quick
> and dirty solution.

On looking at the problem a second time I think this should really drop
all of the non-(tag|property) terms, so including some prefixed terms as
well. I think that would be doable; it's probably worth having some
performance benchmark before introducing the extra complication versus
dkg's approach.

d