Re: nnfolder change?

[Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>]

On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 11:08:34 -0400 Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca> wrote:

> Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net> writes:
>
>> I use nnfolder as my mail backend.  Sometime since September 9, there
>> was a change with the effect that, when I start Gnus, all my mail
>> directories in ~/Mail are visited and their buffers are added to the

s/directories/files/

>> buffer list; this does not happen in my September 9 build.  

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>
> I can confirm that this happens with git gnus, at least for nnfolder
> groups whose levels are low enough.
>

Good to know it's not an idiosyncrasy of my setup.

>> Moreover, the startup time is noticeably slowly that with the

                                            slower than

>> September 9 build.
>
> I've had mixed results measuring this.  Sometimes the recent gnus
> is a lot slower than my old Dec 2009 install, but most of the time
> it is faster.  But I don't have very many nnfolder groups at a low
> level.
>
> You can use benchmark.el to get precise timing results:
>
>   M-x load-library RET benchmark RET
>   M-x benchmark RET (gnus) RET

Thanks for the pointer; here are my measurements:

2010-09-08 build: Elapsed time: 3.953596s (1.693183s in 24 GCs)
2010-09-17 build: Elapsed time: 9.543028s (2.021980s in 27 GCs)

Steve Berman