Re: gnus crashes on threads deeper than 333 articles

[Chong Yidong]

Reiner Steib <address@hidden> writes:

> I searched the archives and I only found one more report about this
> problem, so it seems to be a *very rare* situation.  I'm not sure if
> such a change should be made now (in the stable series).
>
> 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.

> Is your implementation faster or slower than the recursion?

After testing it on several comp.* newsgroups, I concluded that the
performance difference is statistically insignificant.