Re: Gnus' speed

[CHENG Gao <chenggao@gmail.com>]

*On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:34:48 +0200
* Also sprach Daniel Clemente <dcl441-bugs@yahoo.com>:

> Hi,
>
>   I think operations in Gnus are not only slower than many other clients, but also too slow to keep the user happy. I suffer the consequences since I use nnimap in Gnus with Gmail (note that the Gmail web interface is much faster).
>
>   To discuss how to improve Gnus' speed I started this page on EmacsWiki
> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GnusSpeed
>
>   There we can discuss possible solutions, workarounds, … and share experiences.
>
>
> -- Daniel

I wont say Gnus it TOO slow, and I'm a happy Gnus user. It's true Gnus
could be fairly slow for some jobs.

To make my life a little better, I tried to use Gnus in full offline
mode.

I use fetchmail+maildrop to get mails and deliver to local Maildir, then
use nnmaildir to read mails. Good enough for me.

nnrss is really a headache, esp. when I have many subscriptions. Gnus is
slow in comparison with other dedicated RSS readers. I use NetNewsWire
and can see the speed gap. I am trying to find a solution to make RSS
reading offline. 

I found RSS2Leafnode
(http://user42.tuxfamily.org/rss2leafnode/index.html), but it needs
Leafnode 2, and Macports only has Leafnode 1. I need find some time to
install Leafnode 2 from source and check if RSS2Leafnode is good enough.

Another candidate is nntp//rss (http://www.methodize.org/nntprss/). But
its download link is b0rked.

Yet another candidate is rssdrop
(http://search.cpan.org/~acg/rssdrop-0.2/), which could deliver RSS
feeds to local Maildir.