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A comment on Gmail’s fake loading indicator (2020). Parent comment

Re:Gmail’s fake loading indicator (2020) by still_grokking on Thursday November 11, 2021 @02:06PM (#29191751)
I have a few GB of mail folders. I can search them more or less instantaneous, using Kontact (KMail).

Full-text indexing isn't dark magic at all.

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Re:Gmail’s fake loading indicator (2020) by jeffbee on Thursday November 11, 2021 @02:23PM (#29191984)
I guess we have different requirements of scale. My gmail is over 300GB (one of the reasons I have a Google 1 subscription).
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Re:Gmail’s fake loading indicator (2020) by still_grokking on Thursday November 11, 2021 @02:41PM (#29192193)
Ever considered to archive parts of it? I have difficulties to believe all of that is currently needed mail. (I know, it piles up over the years! :-))

Also most of it will be likely some bloat form HTML mail and attachments (especially with their inefficient encodings).

My point was: Handling full-text search indices over even dozens of GB of plain text isn't anything a mediocre computer couldn't handle nowadays.

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