TODO: clarify streaming Email::MIME replacement

[public-inbox.git] / TODO

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 TODO items for public-inbox
 
-(Not in any particular order)
+(Not in any particular order, and
+performance, ease-of-setup, installation, maintainability, etc
+all need to be considered for everything we introduce)
+
+* general performance improvements, but without relying on
+  XS or compiled code any more than we currently do.
 
 * mailmap support (same as git) for remapping expired email addresses
 
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 * Consider storing git blob ID in Xapian doc data to avoid ref
   and tree lookups based on Message-Id.
 
+* streaming Email::MIME replacement: currently we generate many
+  allocations/strings for headers we never look at and slurp
+  entire message bodies into memory.
+  (this is pie-in-the-sky territory...)
+
 * Allow in-place Xapian updates without clobbering the whole
   index (versioning each doc data entry?) for big archives