From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/74534 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Francis Moreau Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Improving Gnus speed Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 21:10:44 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87zktemkwl.fsf@uwo.ca> <87vd42mdci.fsf@uwo.ca> <87r5e555e0.fsf@uwo.ca> <87aaks53my.fsf@uwo.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291061525 30037 80.91.229.12 (29 Nov 2010 20:12:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 20:12:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org To: Dan Christensen Original-X-From: ding-owner+M22893@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Nov 29 21:12:01 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 1PNA4n-0004RW-7s for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 29 Nov 2010 21:11:53 +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 1PNA4M-0001wb-Fr; Mon, 29 Nov 2010 14:11:26 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PNA4J-0001wK-IM for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 29 Nov 2010 14:11:23 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PNA4H-0005GW-Nq for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 29 Nov 2010 14:11:22 -0600 Original-Received: from mail-ww0-f42.google.com ([74.125.82.42]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1PNA4G-0000Kr-00 for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2010 21:11:20 +0100 Original-Received: by wwf26 with SMTP id 26so438842wwf.5 for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2010 12:10:50 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:cc:subject:references :date:in-reply-to:message-id:user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=r/MTxz0JSmkk0Krz5WXDDejjcQbCdN9lxXkNdVXnvT4=; b=WYsE6UbW+0VQv8fbEe/s17n8ilrqvhQdmekSOd8Z+ulPNGpHBZKsfE13KyQd04DMTE PBszo2Sw7UiMHR4bzA2pBdyMlc/hl8yF3PYR74IzphqA1QDz/w0AeO3/TTjwHIiCqcoM tn54lPIjiDxBkh2kyqV0yHd2Uim95CL4/Hp+s= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type; b=Ip3mhEsUeue9Wn+eb6KnHxebfB7AWp/+dyJpmWwwZ0OPwgV/1Gv2cRk0vBs7J5FqiB D4da5B2t9GL3EUCZelOierlIFPULIORlvyCV+W2DmSveWUP9xiIHPJGT6V/PWvKpAnn8 J2cvGlRQaSFUZ48zpyXpUKVFgiA0IBXZSdPHQ= Original-Received: by 10.227.146.145 with SMTP id h17mr6489883wbv.154.1291061450286; Mon, 29 Nov 2010 12:10:50 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from localhost (au213-1-82-235-205-153.fbx.proxad.net [82.235.205.153]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id x59sm2598819weq.14.2010.11.29.12.10.46 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 29 Nov 2010 12:10:47 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87aaks53my.fsf@uwo.ca> (Dan Christensen's message of "Mon, 29 Nov 2010 14:30:29 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -2.0 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:74534 Archived-At: Dan Christensen writes: > Francis Moreau writes: > >> Dan Christensen writes: >> >>> In my tests, if one of the sort functions is >>> gnus-thread-sort-by-most-recent-date, then the above takes almost as >>> long as sorting all of the children too, since it needs to convert >>> *all* time strings to emacs times, and that dominates. >> >> Why are all time strings converted to emacs times in that case ? > > Because to know the most recent date in a thread, you have to compare > all of the dates of articles in that thread. Really ? I would think that you just have to compare the date of all thread *leafs* only. No ? -- Francis