bug#40355: [PATCH] Implement caching for libravatar lookup

[Philip K.]

Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:

>     Philip> I added it because I was considering defining 
> gravatar-libravatar-cache
>     Philip> as
>
>     Philip>     (let ((cache (make-hash-table :test 'equal)))
>     Philip>       (dolist (domain '("aol.com" "att.net" "comcast.net" 
> "facebook.com"
>     Philip>                         "gmail.com" "gmx.com" "googlemail.com" 
> "google.com"
>     Philip>                         "hotmail.com" "hotmail.co.uk" "mac.com" 
> "me.com"
>     Philip>                         "mail.com" "msn.com" "live.com" 
> "sbcglobal.net"
>     Philip>                         ;; ...
>     Philip>                         ))
>     Philip>         (gravatar--service-libravatar (concat "ignored@" domain) 
> cache))
>     Philip>       cache)
>
>     Philip> with a few popular domains. The only issue is that evaluating it 
> takes
>     Philip> forever.
>
> Perhaps thatʼs a sign that pre-population is not needed :-)

It's not needed, but as soon as it is pre-populated the user experience
becomes a lot better. But unless there's a sensible way to fix it, I'll
just resubmit the patch without the optional argument :/

-- 
        Philip K.