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Re: draft-melnikov-imap-search-res

Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi> Tue, 19 October 2004 17:41 UTC

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From: Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi>
Subject: Re: draft-melnikov-imap-search-res
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 20:41:09 +0300
To: Alexey Melnikov <Alexey.Melnikov@isode.com>
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On 19.10.2004, at 19:37, Alexey Melnikov wrote:

>> If client sends SEARCH + FETCH << pipelined, nothing prevents server 
>> from giving all the FETCH replies before the SEARCH reply, right?
>
> The server shouldn't reorder the commands if there are any data 
> dependencies. "<<" is a very explicit indication that there are.

Reordering here wouldn't affect results, only the order in which the 
results are sent to client.

> Is there any particular reason why you think that a server should 
> return FETCH responses before the SEARCH response?

Mostly just performance benefits. Server could process the two commands 
simultaneously in one loop.

But you also mentioned (NORESULT) which would make this possible in any 
case.

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