From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/13679 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hrvoje Niksic Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Huge groups Date: 21 Jan 1998 15:48:01 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035152998 10462 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:29:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:29:58 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA23668 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 06:50:54 -0800 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (root@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA18624 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 08:48:41 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAH06679; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 08:48:40 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 21 Jan 1998 08:48:17 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA06665 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 08:48:10 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 1224 invoked by uid 504); 21 Jan 1998 14:48:08 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 1221 invoked from network); 21 Jan 1998 14:48:07 -0000 Original-Received: from jagor.srce.hr (hniksic@161.53.2.130) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 21 Jan 1998 14:48:07 -0000 Original-Received: (from hniksic@localhost) by jagor.srce.hr (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA21808; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 15:48:01 +0100 (MET) Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Attribution: Hrvoje X-Face: Mie8:rOV<\c/~z{s.X4A{!?vY7{drJ([U]0O=W/xDi&N7XG KV^$k0m3Oe/)'e%3=$PCR&3ITUXH,cK>]bci&Ff%x_>1`T(+M2Gg/fgndU%k*ft [(7._6e0n-V%|%'[c|q:;}td$#INd+;?!-V=c8Pqf}3J In-Reply-To: Stefan Waldherr's message of "21 Jan 1998 09:32:35 -0500" Original-Lines: 28 X-Mailer: Quassia Gnus v0.22/XEmacs 20.5(beta20) - "Don" Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:13679 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:13679 Stefan Waldherr writes: > >>>>> "Jason" == Jason L Tibbitts writes: > > >>>>> "SB" == Steinar Bang writes: > SB> A faster backend? Are there some formats that could be used? Isn't the > SB> qmail native format supposed to be fast? (at least according to Dan > SB> Bernstein...) > > Jason> Well, I think it would be hard to get much faster than nnml. You > Jason> could have something like nnfolder but keep an overview file that > > I think that nnml is pretty darn slow wrt speed. Selecting a group > with, say, 800 articles takes 11s on my machines. This is XEmacs, > not Emacs (it seems to be a little faster under Emacs). Exmh on the > other hand, which I used previously, takes for the same group far > less than 5s. I would really like to find out if other people have > equivalent times ... This has nothing with the merits of nnml compared to speed of other formats. The overhead you see is due to the speed (slowness) of Emacs Lisp, and various display bottlenecks. -- Hrvoje Niksic | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia --------------------------------+-------------------------------- * Q: What is an experienced Emacs user? * A: A person who wishes that the terminal had pedals.