Re: Improving Gnus speed

[Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com>]

Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca> writes:

> Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Yes but I still think that the wrong approach is currently done because
>> all this sorting is mostly done for nothing.
>>
>> When I'm entering in the group, all threads are hidden. And I won't look
>> at 80% of the actual threads. So sorting them are useless.
>>
>> I really think that sorting should happen only when threads are
>> expanded. And that would reduce a _lot_ the number of threads to sort.
>
> I may be wrong, but I think that rearranging the articles in the summary
> buffer is a little complicated in Gnus.  I don't think there's any
> reason that the thread sorting needs to take a significant amount of
> time if done correctly.
>
> Moreover, I never hide threads, so I want them sorted correctly from the
> start. 

Sure but in that case all threads are expanded so also sorted.

I don't want to pay the price to sort them all because I won't read most
of them, and when I don't read a thread I just want it to be hidden
(colapsed).

So it's really: "do the job when it's really needed."

-- 
Francis