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Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net> writes:
> I peak at > 90,000 messages at the moment, with the ten most
> active groups running down from there to ~ 12,000 messages.

When you have a few spare moments, it would be instructive to see your
timings for a 4-article entry to a group with 100, 20K, and 90K messages.

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> I get the feeling that you think that if we make it possible to have
> big groups, that'll make the rest of Gnus slower.  Or that if we spend
> time making one part of Gnus faster, that we can't spend time making
> other parts of Gnus faster.

No, that's not even remotely what I'm thinking, but if I'm being that
badly interpreted, I think I had best find something else to do.