From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2016 15:31:14 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: TODO: update documentation for performance items
X-Git-Tag: v1.0.0~329
X-Git-Url: http://www.git.stargrave.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ccaec143c39c069dd738265dded4f1fac5d7f222;p=public-inbox.git

TODO: update documentation for performance items
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diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index 3b6401f6..30ba38b4 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
 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
 
@@ -45,6 +50,10 @@ TODO items for public-inbox
 * 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.
+
 * Allow in-place Xapian updates without clobbering the whole
   index (versioning each doc data entry?) for big archives