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Re: gnus crashes on threads deeper than 333 articles
From: |
Reiner Steib |
Subject: |
Re: gnus crashes on threads deeper than 333 articles |
Date: |
Tue, 05 Dec 2006 10:29:50 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.91 (gnu/linux) |
On Tue, Dec 05 2006, Richard Stallman wrote:
> > What about providing an option and keep the current recursive as
> > default? See the patch below (`gnus-sort-threads-loop' is your
> > function).
>
> I think this is a good approach.
>
> Why do we want to keep the recursive version?
> Why add an option?
>
> We know that the loop works, so let's just use that.
Well, the recursion is well tested (part of Gnus at least since 1997)
with only _two_ reported problems with it over all those years
(i.e. the situation when the recursion fails is *very rare*). The new
function has been tested in practice only by two persons. I wouldn't
feel comfortable to change such an important function so shortly
before the Emacs release without providing a simple way back in case
of problem with the loop implementation.
Bye, Reiner.
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Re: gnus crashes on threads deeper than 333 articles, Reiner Steib, 2006/12/04
Re: gnus crashes on threads deeper than 333 articles, Chong Yidong, 2006/12/05
Re: gnus crashes on threads deeper than 333 articles, Chong Yidong, 2006/12/05
Re: gnus crashes on threads deeper than 333 articles, Chris Moore, 2006/12/05
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