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Inspired by the recent discussion on news.software.readers, I've been
benchmarking group entry a bit.  I've used ELP, and it led me to find
some weaknesses in the manner format specs are used.  (The
pre-compiled functions were supposed to be used for default values,
but they weren't.)  After fixing that, and inlining some other
functions, I got group entry of a 1K group down from 2 seconds to 1.5
seconds.  (Yes, this is a new and spiffy machine.  :-)

There are now three things that take about the same time when entering
a group, and account for 95% of the time spent:

1) parsing NOV headers (this has gotten slower due to MIME stuff, I'm
   guessing)
2) scoring
3) creating and outputting the threads

If someone wants to look closer at this, then I'm all for it.  :-)

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen