[Dovecot] body search very slow since upgrade from 1.0.15 to 1.2.10

[Stan Hoeppner]

Timo Sirainen put forth on 2/28/2010 6:21 AM:
> On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 21:04 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> Looks like some input stream seeking optimizations are broken (when
>> one input stream reads from another, which reads from another, ...). I
>> already managed to fix the performance problem, but now it's
>> corrupting saved mails sometimes. So a while longer to get it fully
>> fixed :) And since it's a pretty big change, I'm not sure if I want to
>> risk breaking v1.2 by changing it, so maybe it's v2.0 only.
> 
> Fixed now in v2.0 and optimized also conversion to uppercase:
> 
> http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.0/rev/de2798fbbae6
> http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.0/rev/23858ce6422e
> 
> After this, searching your spam mailbox goes from:
> 
> v1.2 OK Search completed (26.084 secs).
> 
> to
> 
> v2.0 OK Search completed (2.172 secs).
> 
> It's still slower than v1.0's 1.83 secs, but the increased slowness is
> most likely because v1.0 didn't support case-insensitive unicode
> searches.

Awesome--  13x increase in speed.  Nice work Timo.  I'll definitely
appreciate it when I move to 2.0.  Maybe it'll be fast enough I can get rid
of Squat.

Any chance these changes will make it as a bug fix into 1.2.11?  How
extensive were the changes required to fix this bug?

-- 
Stan