Re: '0.95 /slow to open large (1009K) messages

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

Karl Kleinpaste <karl@justresearch.com> writes:

> Delays in opening very large messages are somewhat routine.  Mutt
> opens them instantly because mutt is rather stupid and doesn't do
> 1/100th of what Gnus does with them.  Consider that e.g. Gnus is
> seeking emphasizable text (*bold* _underline_ /italic/) text to toy
> with, hunting for URLs to highlight, examining them for embedded
> uuencoded data, and Lars alone knows what else.  Each of these
> operations has to massage the entire message body.
> 
> Granted that a minute seems rather a long time.  But then most of this 
> kind of processing is being done by regexp search followed by property 
> hackery and so forth -- not really the fastest-acting options around,
> usually needing a fair amount of interaction with the X server as well.
> 
> I don't believe there are any particularly new sources of slowness in
> p0.95.  If you think there might be, I suggest you revert temporarily
> to an older version (say, around the p0.84 range) and compare timings.


Man that was a fast response Karl...

I'm off to work in a few minutes so I'll try some older versions this
evening.   One further question:

The messages is a lengthy report of a cron run tar backup.  Most of
the lines in the message have the format of a long pathname/file
like so:

/home/reader/News/agent/nntp/netnews.worldnet.att.net/comp/lang/awk/9362
/home/reader/News/agent/nntp/netnews.worldnet.att.net/comp/lang/awk/9363

Would this cause any of the many operations gnus does to be
particularly slow?