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From: Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@googlemail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: gnus is just slow when dealing with more than 5000 articles
Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2009 16:54:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <gragne$5tn$4@news.motzarella.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.4650.1238942112.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

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

-- 


  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-04-05 14:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-05 12:40 gnus is just slow when dealing with more than 5000 articles Francis Moreau
2009-04-05 14:31 ` Leo
     [not found] ` <mailman.4650.1238942112.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-04-05 14:54   ` Richard Riley [this message]
2009-04-05 18:37     ` Leo
2009-04-07 11:12   ` Francis Moreau
2009-04-06  3:06 ` Andy Stewart

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