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Encoding of interpreter-level script representation

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
go

Research direction

Start by locating interp.Script and the path that parses Sieve source into it. Design an encoding that can be stored externally and restored on demand without reparsing the original script; done means the representation can be recovered efficiently for message processing.

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Description

Sieve scripts might be loaded many times again and again while processing incoming messages. While it is possible to store interp.Script objects in memory, a practical implementation might want to avoid doing so as the size and amount of scripts can be significant. One potential solution is to define an efficient encoding of interp.Script data so it can be quickly restored from external cache on-demand without the cost of parsing the original Sieve code.

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Go
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17
Forks
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