Re: Gnus' speed

[asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren)]

On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:29:11 +1000, Kevin wrote:

> Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:

>> (gnus)Slow Machine

> I never understood why startup takes quite so long (with those
> newsgroups check bits set to nil, and only a dozen or so local nntp and
> nnml subscribed, but lots unsubscribed).  Maybe it's just the quantity
> of code loaded.  Did someone profile it a few years ago?

Could some of you quantify this 'slow startup'?

Maybe I've just gotten used to the speed, or lack thereof, of Gnus, so
it doesn't feel so slow to me - maybe the GHz-machines has helped, or
maybe I use Gnus differently - I don't know.

On my work-machine (Intel Core2 1.86GHz), where I only read email (with
nnml) it takes ~4s.

At home (Athlon Dual Core 4850e 2.5GHz) where I connect to three
news-servers (a local, gmane and an external - but only 112 groups in
total), read email (with nnml) and have 18 nnrss groups (fetched via
cron), it takes ~14s.

(I measured simply by stop-watching from M-x gnus until the group buffer
shows up and is ready.)


  Best regards,

    Adam

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