Re: Pre-Processed maiil splitting under Gnus?

[Asymptotically Approaching Relaxation <feoh@cosmic.com>]

Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> writes:

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> "AAR" == Asymptotically Approaching Relaxation <feoh@cosmic.com> writes:
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> AAR> (Note: I'm NOT slamming Gnus here.  It's elisp, and given the number
> AAR> of sexpr's it has to eval per message filtered I think it does a
> AAR> *fine* job.  It's just that every time I go to read my mail, it gets
> AAR> more and more painful every day to spend 5+ minutes watching Gnus go
> AAR> *chuggachugga*)
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> 5 *MINUTES*?  Gnus and FSF Emacs 19.34 on old 486 DX2-50 with 12Mb RAM,
> running Windows 95, would split a 250-message mail spool file in under 30
> seconds.  This was using nnml, the slowest-writing backend available to
> Gnus, on a VFAT filesystem, one of the slowest filesystems available on any
> OS running on the Intel architecture.
> 
> I think there is something seriously wrong with your system, not Gnus.

To answer my own question:

I'm seeing a total performance turnaround once I re-wrote my .gnus
file and minimized the length and complexity of the regexes I'm
filtering on.

I'd written the thing in the early days before I got used to how emacs 
groks regexes, and was being *extremely* paranoid about full
hostnames, etc.

-Chris
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