From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/74513 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Improving Gnus speed Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 05:41:15 +0100 Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen Message-ID: References: <87zktemkwl.fsf@uwo.ca> <87vd42mdci.fsf@uwo.ca> <87y68vhj3q.fsf@uwo.ca> <87sjz3h9zo.fsf@uwo.ca> <871v6el86z.fsf@uwo.ca> <87vd3h55w2.fsf@uwo.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291005930 32190 80.91.229.12 (29 Nov 2010 04:45:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 04:45:30 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M22872@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Nov 29 05:45:26 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 1PMvcB-0001it-9d for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 29 Nov 2010 05:45:23 +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 1PMvc3-00061j-D2; Sun, 28 Nov 2010 22:45:15 -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 1PMvc2-00061Y-5d for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 28 Nov 2010 22:45:14 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PMvbx-0007TG-LS for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 28 Nov 2010 22:45:14 -0600 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1PMvbw-0005PO-00 for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2010 05:45:08 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PMvbs-0001dI-Qc for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 29 Nov 2010 05:45:04 +0100 Original-Received: from cm-84.215.34.171.getinternet.no ([84.215.34.171]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2010 05:45:04 +0100 Original-Received: from larsi by cm-84.215.34.171.getinternet.no with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2010 05:45:04 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cm-84.215.34.171.getinternet.no Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAFVBMVEUKBggHBAUbFxsDAQOK h44FAgQBAAGAzOCNAAACUklEQVQ4jWVS0VLkIBAcUN5hV+4ZEe/ZlYJnL8UHBFPjD1Dm/z/heoie rkcqm830dE83gfaSM5dR636skfOouWTKvHHp+bOOlfeacya+gOHyB2MQ7jqB2X057xMYT7HWkg8G n8+D8yzX/bRsg7c950KOiq/l7VAft+3XMaNQ4VJh4KCM1EQUhS4ztvy+H7aGXjJ4sGPIdLSP3eK1 5mGNpMrZefK8MjKlB2hDGlctoytLhlcDSvo9Mw/w9rF7VuRc9+jU5wFBQHA+xoWZVCe3lfUmlzdQ 8pj+Lm4lUmwYcloVV+q7SEGUHRE59vlZt8Zb2XLeZh7k6HfBa9NvW3vIOcYWah1l60zurq3kV53a H+aoA7yHp0iG6LYRWUqtvXCJCAueXjBhPbX71SpINX9azJYetxSXEIl0elhPmN0aoZOhmNpLjBRj fNQUBQippfu0cIroEyBqakmA1lKgxZLwCfcSJ6HNv61J6wHE1L5W0roZjRloP+oiuUh3CC7GhQJs RVwLuhR84k2HpSHiSsaiOT5Pi/C3xIAnGY2QyP7a6eYSHZxCRSH546vik6H1iQu/WhcEwIclCq/E 3tNl7Vz0KhkW2SnZLDoz4yAxznYnCbdEqVvPYKDIvTv5bhJTANdxUJi7dd15ASTKwbDGoE7KTQLB JYkrdHpoTIC+L2izUwfg7DfAsSxw3OS5K0TKUqcrhiWPVucBX81wboqD0e0VoGSyskqi/KvZD8bE /2ccLuURrgA1XeIXB/kHw0q7g6+fWhaeLBp+DBFx9bWH11KfUb+tv4ogs8xdeu4VAAAAAElFTkSu QmCC Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Playing: Mark Kozelek's _Lost Verses - Live_: "Harper Road" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:SO/UHBb7k0BzdVTdSm78xXnww7U= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:74513 Archived-At: Dan Christensen writes: > The upshot is that about 1.3s is date conversion for each article, the > rest has to do with the latest-date traversal and the actual sorting. Ah, right. Thanks for benchmarking this. Perhaps the date parsing stuff should be pushed down into the C layer? Surely one of the many libraries already included in a standard Emacs build has a date parser already included... > I should also note that I first did the timings yesterday, and got a > total time of 2.5s (reproducibly). Then, 24 hours later, in the same > emacs, the total time was almost double that (reproducibly). So I > started a fresh emacs, and got the times above (1.6s total). Yeah, benchmarking in Emacs can be kinda, er, non-reproducible. I've never understood why, though. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen