From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/71252 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Berman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nnfolder change? Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 19:58:39 +0200 Message-ID: <87zkvcs3e8.fsf@escher.home> References: <87r5gofpa1.fsf@escher.home> <87ocbs4fm5.fsf@uwo.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1285005544 18715 80.91.229.12 (20 Sep 2010 17:59:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 17:59:04 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M19625@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Sep 20 19:59:03 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oxkdq-0006JZ-TW for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 19:59:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Oxkdj-0003oF-21; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 12:58:55 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Oxkdh-0003o1-KE for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 12:58:53 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Oxkdg-00051V-Ch for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 12:58:53 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1Oxkdf-0006mD-00 for ; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 19:58:51 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oxkdd-0006Bx-BN for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 19:58:49 +0200 Original-Received: from i59f55af2.versanet.de ([89.245.90.242]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 19:58:49 +0200 Original-Received: from stephen.berman by i59f55af2.versanet.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 19:58:49 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 42 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: i59f55af2.versanet.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:71252 Archived-At: On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 11:08:34 -0400 Dan Christensen wrote: > Stephen Berman 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. 8 > > 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