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Re: gnus is just slow when dealing with more than 5000 articles


From: Richard Riley
Subject: Re: gnus is just slow when dealing with more than 5000 articles
Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2009 16:54:49 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.92 (gnu/linux)

Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com> writes:

> On 2009-04-05 13:40 +0100, Francis Moreau wrote:
>> hello,
>>
>> Does anybody know some gnus tricks to make it faster when dealing with a
>> group with a lot of articles ?
>>
>> The time to fetch headers from the news server is ok but the time to
>> summarise the buffer is way too long. The same when trying to filter the
>> summary buffer.
>>
>> Thunderbird deals with 17000 articles and all operations (searching,
>> sorting in threaded view...) is almost instantaneous.
>
> It might be a bug. Make a reproducible recipe and report it to its
> developers.

Easy : open a group with a few hundred articles. It takes an appreciable
amount of time. I never thought of it as a bug though - merely an elisp
overhead combined with formatting overheads.

>
>>
>> thanks

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