[Logicmail-users] Performance improvements and caution (build 203)

[Derek K. <dko...@lo...>]

  Build 203 should be available shortly.  This is probably the biggest 
change I've committed at once in quite a long time.  So if it blows up 
in your face (which it very well may), feel free to drop back to build 
202.  (just let me know in useful detail so I can debug it)

 From the user-perspective, you'll notice two things:
1) Freshly opening a mail folder (at least /w IMAP) may be twice as 
fast, or more.
2) Saving larger attachments (/w IMAP) should actually work now.

Of course, to do this, I had to do three things that could cause LM to 
blow up in your face, if there are lurking bugs :-)
1) Changed how data gets from the network connection to the rest of the 
application
  (keeping data as a byte[] as long as possible, only making Strings 
when necessary, and a few other things)
2) Completely rewrote the core piece of the IMAP parser
  (the old code was slow and ugly, the new code is simple and fast)
3) Made saving messages to the SDCard happen on a separate thread from 
downloading/displaying them

In doing all of this, I was also able to remove a lot of hacks and 
workaround that were necessary with the old and crusty low-level code.

So hopefully everyone will be happy in the long run.  Just be forewarned :-)

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  Derek Konigsberg
  dko...@lo...
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