From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/42119 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel Pittman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Benchmarking Gnus Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 13:06:34 +1100 Organization: Not today, thank you, Mother. Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87ofjtybmd.fsf@inanna.rimspace.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035177405 9691 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 05:16:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:16:45 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 27045 invoked from network); 17 Jan 2002 02:08:42 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 17 Jan 2002 02:08:42 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16R1y5-0005OE-00; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 20:07:53 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 16 Jan 2002 20:07:47 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA02938 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 20:07:37 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 27034 invoked by alias); 17 Jan 2002 02:07:35 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 27029 invoked from network); 17 Jan 2002 02:07:35 -0000 Original-Received: from melancholia.rimspace.net (HELO melancholia.danann.net) (210.23.138.19) by gnus.org with SMTP; 17 Jan 2002 02:07:35 -0000 Original-Received: from localhost (melancholia.rimspace.net [210.23.138.19]) by melancholia.danann.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DBF02A812 for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 13:07:16 +1100 (EST) Original-Received: by localhost (Postfix, from userid 1000) id DC9F88204E; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 13:06:34 +1100 (EST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Simon Josefsson's message of "Wed, 16 Jan 2002 13:45:09 +0100 (CET)") Original-Lines: 31 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090005 (Oort Gnus v0.05) XEmacs/21.5 (bamboo, i686-pc-linux) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:42119 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:42119 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 -- In the present-day reconstruction of physics, fragments of the Newtonian concepts are stubbornly retained. The result is to reduce modern physics to a sort of mystic chant over an unintelligible universe. -- Alfred North Whitehead, _Modes of Thought_