Re: Long time to exit summary buffer, possible speed enhancement?

[Ken Raeburn <raeburn@cygnus.com>]

Shane Holder <holder@mordor.rsn.hp.com> writes:

>   Ken> A hack workaround to this is to move all the articles (mark
>   Ken> everything with `#', then hit `B m') from the mail group to
>   Ken> that same mail group, which causes sequential renumbering and
>   Ken> thus removes the empty ranges.  Unfortunately, it also discards
>   Ken> any xref info if those messages were also stored in other mail
>   Ken> groups.  And it's only a temporary fix.
> 
> I just tried this suggestion, and I'm not sure that it's a good thing
> to do, it was taking a 'long' time (1 in 3-5 sec).  I have ~1700
> articles (expiry of 60 days) and I don't have that long to wait.  It

Yes, it's slow.  I'm not sure why.  But that's another thing that
could be explored using debug-on-quit as Lars suggested.  However,
once the pass is finished, exiting the group should be much faster.

> also seems to loose any marks that have been applied to the articles

I thought `B m' was supposed to preserve marks, but I could be wrong.

> (expiry for example), and if you use expiry it will screw that up also
> because it will change the modification time on the file, which nnml
> uses for expiration.

Also true.  Like I said, it's a hack.

Ken