From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: fast list
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 17:59:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m34ocf1qqt.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3wrpc3dlt.fsf@carbon.jhcloos.org>
James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com> writes:
> The amount of data is the same, it just takes longer to grab it one
> group at a time than all at once. Part of the extra delay is the extra
> round trips.
There are no extra round trips between Gnus and the IMAP server. The
data is streamed.
> Part of it is that scanning the tables and indices for
> one group takes nearly as long as scanning them for all of the groups.
Yeah, that would explain the slow-down. But I don't think that's
something that's true for most IMAP servers.
> I think I can follow you new nnimap well enough to propose a patch to
> use list-status and list-tags. (I prefer C or Perl, am far from
> illiterate in lisp, but the old nnimap.el/imap.el bested me when I
> tried to debug the two or three non-speed-related bugs which I hit.)
Yes, it was kinda abstract. :-)
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-21 15:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-17 5:15 James Cloos
2010-10-17 22:02 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-17 22:58 ` James Cloos
2010-10-18 19:10 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-18 20:49 ` James Cloos
2010-10-18 21:03 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-18 23:17 ` James Cloos
2010-10-18 23:38 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-19 16:00 ` James Cloos
2010-10-19 16:13 ` Steinar Bang
2010-10-19 18:12 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-19 20:56 ` James Cloos
2010-10-19 18:12 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-19 21:05 ` James Cloos
2010-10-20 0:07 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-20 18:47 ` James Cloos
2010-10-21 15:59 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2010-10-21 19:13 ` James Cloos
2010-10-22 14:51 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-19 5:58 ` Steinar Bang
2010-10-19 18:11 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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