It is absolutely in experimental state. It needs enormous amounts of refactoring work. It’s definitely a hack at this moment. It doesn’t really work yet. It’s ugly (like, I have to save things in a load method). Yadi yada.
But some of it is actually working and you can find the current patch here. It often crashes and burns and does other cool stuff like throwing keyboard keys in your eyes. In tinymail, if you do this and if you do that, you can actually already see the summary of headers in the view. I still have to do the “content_info” part, and disable a few more things in the camel providers.
Once it works, I’m interested in what tweaking the mmap addr pointer with posix_madvise is going to do when for example the sorting and loading of the summary happens. My target is to support a summary view of ~80,000 messages on a mobile device with less than 50MB ram. Cause of how the summary information is at this moment loaded, tinymail can only support something like ~15,000 messages.
Anyway, it’s Friday evening. Tinne is waiting for me! So I’m forcing myself to stop hacking on it and spend the evening doing some other stuff. Like going out.
