From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/20227 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Asymptotically Approaching Relaxation Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Pre-Processed maiil splitting under Gnus? Date: 12 Jan 1999 02:57:10 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <199901112208.RAA04940@magrathea.cosmic.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035158556 16669 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:02:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:02:36 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from karazm.math.uh.edu (karazm.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.1]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA22605 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 03:05:00 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by karazm.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id CAB07238; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 02:04:34 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 12 Jan 1999 02:02:45 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA09823 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 02:02:35 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from magrathea.cosmic.com (root@chrisp.xensei.com [204.96.52.53]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA22585 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 03:02:28 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from feoh@localhost) by magrathea.cosmic.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id CAA07413; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 02:57:10 -0500 Original-To: "(ding)" X-Reason-For-Owning-A-TV: Babylon 5 In-Reply-To: Stainless Steel Rat's message of "11 Jan 1999 17:23:25 -0500" Original-Lines: 36 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:20227 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:20227 Stainless Steel Rat writes: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > "AAR" == Asymptotically Approaching Relaxation writes: > > 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*) > > 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 ____________________________________________________________________ |Chris Patti|ICQ#16333120|feoh@cosmic.com|Home #:(617)625-3194|JAPH| |"I have opposable thumbs, and I can buy a rifle. I don't need to | | run from anything." -Todd Finney |