Re: Pushing the `gnus-range-*' functions down into the C layer

[Wojciech Meyer]

Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> writes:
>
> You mean a bool-vector, I think.  Emacs has those built-in, see 
>
> (info "(elisp) Bool-Vectors")
>
> but they are not good at representing sparse mutable lists, which Gnus
> needs to represent article ranges.
>
> Ted

Hi,

I think they are best to solve your performance problems.  The idea is
to keep just one array for all of the articles, means one per
group. That would be just the internal representation, you still
save-read from lists with article ranges.

Wojciech