From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/48594 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Concerning marks and the back end. Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 19:46:23 +0100 Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <86fzsc4ii2.fsf@asfast.com> <84k7hnjxqi.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> <86y9638l7i.fsf@asfast.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1041533189 15143 80.91.224.249 (2 Jan 2003 18:46:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 18:46:29 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18UAMN-0003w4-00 for ; Thu, 02 Jan 2003 19:46:28 +0100 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 18UAMd-00056G-00; Thu, 02 Jan 2003 12:46:43 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 02 Jan 2003 12:47:37 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (sclp3.sclp.com [66.230.238.2]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA24644 for ; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 12:47:23 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 4513 invoked by alias); 2 Jan 2003 18:46:25 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 4508 invoked from network); 2 Jan 2003 18:46:25 -0000 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (80.91.224.244) by 66.230.238.6 with SMTP; 2 Jan 2003 18:46:25 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18UANg-0006X9-00 for ; Thu, 02 Jan 2003 19:47:48 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 20 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: quimbies.gnus.org Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1041533268 23843 80.91.231.2 (2 Jan 2003 18:47:48 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 2 Jan 2003 18:47:48 GMT Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Playing: Ruby's _Stroking The Full Length_: "Swallow Baby (Single Mix)" User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-Face: 5V{H*gfnACWS>;;-&@W#\.i/>j@ym>FEepOaQ/&3!mC,P[dkl89k&|g(2p9`xD/m)%}u[7! =7.7oe8c'F:y]8>vA3-Iw;Q}cL4Hiv@5j9hg;_xqA2qQchk}VSI`#u`uSLbE'r)k)/gVHwo#o;D9xa ;%[)>D.F43(&p|kL6f?k?"C#(g(i_>.'4s>5q2\ writes: > I'm talking about the case where all messages are already marked as > read, and I want to enter the group. If there is a several-thousand > message backlog of already-read messages in that group, it takes a huge > amount of time to construct the summary buffer. For example, one such > group has 5670 old messages as of this posting. > > Not fetching headers for most of this several-thousand message backlog > would speed things up immensely. If you only ask for the, say, three last articles, you should only get the article headers for (approx.) the last three articles. Or is it the .marks code that goes through a lot more articles than that? -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen