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Re: IMAP server side search integration



On Monday, 05 September 2005 at 12:55, John Franklin wrote:
> As a variant of both of the above, would it be possible to use the
> server-side substring matching to return "regex canididates" which are
> then further filtered by the regex engine locally?  The first
> implementation would use whatever (first or longest) block of straight
> text is present in the regex for substring searching, and use the
> results from the server as the input to the actual regex engine.  This
> will improve the speed of the search somewhat, leaving full optimization
> for the future.

That had occurred to me too, but it becomes messy very quickly. As a
simple example: foo*. Or foo|bar. To get it right would probably
approach writing an RE parser.

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