From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/73974 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Improving Gnus speed Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2010 22:03:35 +0100 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1289336704 18958 80.91.229.12 (9 Nov 2010 21:05:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 21:05:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org To: Francis Moreau Original-X-From: ding-owner+M22342@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Nov 09 22:05:00 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 1PFvNC-0000Tm-Sr for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 09 Nov 2010 22:04:59 +0100 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 1PFvMW-0005Y4-8M; Tue, 09 Nov 2010 15:04:16 -0600 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 1PFvMU-0005Xr-GM for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 09 Nov 2010 15:04:14 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PFvMN-00018V-Ff for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 09 Nov 2010 15:04:11 -0600 Original-Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.9]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1PFvMM-0005l5-00 for ; Tue, 09 Nov 2010 22:04:06 +0100 Original-Received: from frontend1.mail.m-online.net (unknown [192.168.8.180]) by mail-out.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E86B1C159B2; Tue, 9 Nov 2010 22:03:36 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from igel.home (ppp-88-217-98-2.dynamic.mnet-online.de [88.217.98.2]) by mail.mnet-online.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 548E71C000BA; Tue, 9 Nov 2010 22:03:36 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by igel.home (Postfix, from userid 501) id E898DCA2A0; Tue, 9 Nov 2010 22:03:35 +0100 (CET) X-Yow: LOOK!! Sullen American teens wearing MADRAS shorts and ``Flock of Seagulls'' HAIRCUTS! In-Reply-To: (Francis Moreau's message of "Tue, 09 Nov 2010 20:58:31 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:73974 Archived-At: Francis Moreau writes: > Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > >> Francis Moreau writes: >> >>> BTW, Gnus is using Git as SCM (cool) but it seems that it uses HTTP >>> method only (not git protocol). Is that right ? >>> >>> IIRC, git protocol is more effective, and I actually don't compile Git >>> with HTTP support since it adds some dependency like curl for no good >>> reason. >> >> The Gnus sources are so small that just using HTTP seems OK to me, >> speedwise. > > Well even in that case, why not using the native protocol which is more > efficient, stable ... ? It _is_ using the native protocol, over HTTP. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."