From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/57820 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai Grossjohann Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gnus vs Wanderlust Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 18:39:56 +0200 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: <86ise8h9yb.fsf@rumba.de.uu.net> References: <87zn7mvrcl.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1086280848 3595 80.91.224.253 (3 Jun 2004 16:40:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 16:40:48 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M6361@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Jun 03 18:40:30 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BVvGX-0003ws-00 for ; Thu, 03 Jun 2004 18:40:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1BVvGB-0001Hu-00; Thu, 03 Jun 2004 11:40:07 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1BVvG7-0001Hp-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 03 Jun 2004 11:40:03 -0500 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BVvG3-0007TN-E0 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 03 Jun 2004 11:39:59 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (quimby.gnus.org [80.91.224.244]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E574D3A021B for ; Thu, 3 Jun 2004 11:39:58 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BVvG2-00059t-00 for ; Thu, 03 Jun 2004 18:39:58 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 20 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 139.4.37.213 Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1086280798 17419 139.4.37.213 (3 Jun 2004 16:39:58 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 16:39:58 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:g5Pe/8GeTaZTC/rp98q3bZtZFV4= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:57820 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:57820 colin.rafferty@morganstanley.com writes: > There are two basic problems with how Gnus does this: > > 1. It does not cache summary layout information. When it builds a > summary, it has to start from scratch. WL always caches, and VM is > optionally able to cache. The reason is that new articles might change a lot in the summary buffer. Note that you can display things like thread score, and if a thread gains a message, its score will change... > 2. Its method of reloading a group is to tear down the summary and lay > it out again, rather than applying a delta. WL and VM both use > deltas, so updates are immediate. Perhaps `/ N' does useful things? Kai