Re: Benchmarking Gnus

[Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net>]

On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> 
>> There are now three things that take about the same time when
>> entering a group, and account for 95% of the time spent:

[...]

> A long term solution would be to redesign this stuff and make it run
> asynchronously. The summary buffer would appear immediately containing
> as many empty lines as there are messages that should be shown, and
> then things are populated in the background. This might even give us
> some more flexibility, like allowing backends to perform threading
> (IMAP supports this).
> 
> But long term solutions should perhaps be targetted at Guile.. gimme a
> guile emacs! :-)

The day they write it, and it's shown in beta, is the day to start
writing code for it, I think.

Because, you know, that means I never have to deal with a Scheme based
Emacs at all. ;)

        Daniel

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