Re: '0.95 /slow to open large (1009K) messages

[Colin Rafferty <craffert@ms.com>]

Harry Putnam writes:
> Karl Kleinpaste <karl@justresearch.com> writes:

>> Consider that e.g. Gnus is seeking emphasizable text (*bold*
>> _underline_ /italic/) text to toy with, hunting for URLs to
>> highlight, examining them for embedded uuencoded data, and Lars
>> alone knows what else.  Each of these operations has to massage the
>> entire message body.

> The messages is a lengthy report of a cron run tar backup.  Most of
> the lines in the message have the format of a long pathname/file
> like so:

> /home/reader/News/agent/nntp/netnews.worldnet.att.net/comp/lang/awk/9362
> /home/reader/News/agent/nntp/netnews.worldnet.att.net/comp/lang/awk/9363

> Would this cause any of the many operations gnus does to be
> particularly slow?

I imagine that it will think about italicizing most of that stuff.  If 
you do a `C-u g' on this message, you will see that /slashes/ that are 
italicized.

-- 
Colin