Re: Gnus' speed

[Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>]

David Engster <deng@randomsample.de> writes:
>> I am surprised that anyone would want to do away with scoring; its
>> utility is so high in terms of determining what is/isn't worth reading
>> that, even if slow, it is too valuable to ignore.
>>
>> That said, I don't find it slow.  I even have an "all" scorefile along
>> with the usual per-group scorefiles, and I don't perceive any special
>> penalty from using scoring.
>
> It depends on the scoring you do. If you score against the whole head or
> even the body, scoring becomes incredibly slow since Gnus has to request
> the head/body, resp.

Indeed, but of course the solution is to not add score rules using
all-headers/body, not to disable scoring entirely!

The "normal" scoring rules seem quite fast to me, essentially in the
noise for my usage (mostly netnews though).  I suppose if you're on a
very old and slow machine, you might not want to use them.

And the as the GP says, the utility of scoring is quite high.

-Miles

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