From: Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com>
Subject: Re: The early gnus shars
Date: Sun, 04 May 2003 22:06:03 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <r87e6tbo.fsf@asfast.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vxkr87eux52.fsf@mesquite.charcoal.com> (Karl Kleinpaste's message of "Sun, 04 May 2003 19:09:45 -0400")
Karl Kleinpaste <k@charcoal.com> writes:
> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>> I wonder how much work it would be to get Gnus 2.0 up and running on
>> modern Emacsen -- just to see what it looks like in action.
>
> [ ... ]
>
> Possibly the best part about it, in a backhandedly humorous mode:
>
> It auto-subscribes every possible newsgroup. Forgive Masanobu Umeda
> for his shortsightedness in this regard: At the time of GNUS 2.x, B
> News 2.11.17 was the current server software, which still used a
> maximum group count in defs.h of 512. My usual server today has
> (only) 12,000 groups. It took XEmacs 21.4, running this old GNUS, 58
> seconds just to do the start-up auto-subscriptions, followed by
> another 54 seconds of "checking new news" before it displayed the
> *Newsgroup* (today's *Group*) buffer, on this AMD 1.2GHz Linux
> machine.
>
> Awesome.
>
> --karl
So tahat's around 2 minutes startup time for 12,000 groups. If we went
with the B News maximum of 512, that's a factor of 24, or only 5 seconds
for startup. That doesn't seem bad, until you remember how slow the
machines were back then.
I wonder if we'll ever find a 1.x or even 0.x version of gnus to
play with.
So far, I haven't gotten a reply from Masanobu ... if he does get back
to me, I'm going to ask him if he knows of any earlier versions.
--
Lloyd Zusman
ljz@asfast.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-05 2:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-03 20:58 [OT] Of the meaning of GNUS Xavier Maillard
2003-05-03 21:02 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-05-03 21:10 ` Karl Kleinpaste
2003-05-03 21:45 ` Jesper Harder
2003-05-04 15:51 ` Glenn Morris
2003-05-03 22:37 ` Raymond Scholz
2003-05-04 15:38 ` Xavier Maillard
2003-05-04 16:49 ` Oystein Viggen
2003-05-13 17:24 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-05-04 15:37 ` Xavier Maillard
2003-05-03 21:07 ` Richard Hoskins
2003-05-03 21:26 ` Lloyd Zusman
2003-05-04 13:19 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-05-04 14:20 ` Lloyd Zusman
2003-05-04 15:41 ` Xavier Maillard
2003-05-04 16:27 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-05-04 18:17 ` Lloyd Zusman
2003-05-04 19:48 ` Lloyd Zusman
2003-05-04 19:23 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2003-05-04 19:33 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2003-05-04 19:53 ` Lloyd Zusman
2003-05-04 20:09 ` Frank Schmitt
2003-05-04 20:34 ` Lloyd Zusman
2003-05-04 20:53 ` Lloyd Zusman
2003-05-04 21:21 ` The early gnus shars (was: [OT] Of the meaning of GNUS) Lloyd Zusman
2003-05-04 21:25 ` The early gnus shars Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-05-04 22:03 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-05-04 22:08 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-05-04 23:09 ` Karl Kleinpaste
2003-05-05 2:06 ` Lloyd Zusman [this message]
2003-05-05 3:17 ` Bill White
2003-05-05 19:30 ` Xavier Maillard
2003-05-04 21:27 ` The early gnus shars (was: [OT] Of the meaning of GNUS) Lloyd Zusman
2003-05-05 19:31 ` The early gnus shars Xavier Maillard
2003-05-05 20:34 ` Frank Schmitt
2003-05-13 17:29 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-05-13 18:15 ` Lloyd Zusman
2003-06-16 9:58 ` Shigeki UNO
2003-05-04 20:00 ` [OT] Of the meaning of GNUS Jesper Harder
2003-05-04 18:18 ` Robert Marshall
2003-05-05 14:54 ` William M. Perry
2003-05-05 20:36 ` Jon Ericson
2003-05-04 15:40 ` Xavier Maillard
2003-05-04 15:54 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2003-05-05 19:30 ` Xavier Maillard
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