<p>As a data point, I would be extremely displeased if the only option was a database. Call me old fashioned, but I like plain text a lot. Does anyone have benchmarks showing how much faster this is? </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 4, 2010 3:19 PM, "Sebastian Spaeth" <<a href="mailto:Sebastian@sspaeth.de">Sebastian@sspaeth.de</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> On Sat, 04 Dec 2010 21:03:58 +0800, Ng Oon-Ee <<a href="mailto:ngoonee@gmail.com">ngoonee@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> Wouldn't supporting alternative formats be more work for the maintainers<br>>> and contributors? Also as I understand it the performance gains would<br>>> mean that practically if the implementation is good most would switch<br>
>> anyway.<br>> <br>> I agree. As much as I love plugins and pluginability. I think if we find<br>> out and decide that this is the more efficient way to deal with things,<br>> it would make sense to settle on that rather than offer plenty of<br>
> possibilities. Or someone wants a mysql backend next :-).<br>> <br>> Sebastian<br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> OfflineIMAP-project mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:OfflineIMAP-project@lists.alioth.debian.org">OfflineIMAP-project@lists.alioth.debian.org</a><br>
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