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Anders Melchiorsen <postmaster@and.nospam.kampsax.k-net.dk> writes:
> Especially when I enter a group, Gnus is slower in generating the
> summary and it is virtually impossible for me to enter groups with,
> say, 2000 articles (since Emacs grows to an image size that my 64MB of
> RAM simply cannot handle).

I don't know why you'd have that much trouble.  My normal Gnus
environment is on a 4-yr-old PPro 200MHz, and I routinely enter groups
with at least several hundred articles.  Yes, it takes a moment, but
it's not unreasonable.  It is certainly the case that 5.8 is more
featureful, and is therefore trying to do more for you, than 5.6 did,
but I can't say there are reasons for group entry, particularly, to
have slowed down -- the big changes for 5.8 were MIME handling, mail
sources, and some funky access methods (nnweb, nnultimate,
nnslashdot), not *Summary* generation.

On the other hand, I notice you're using a recent XEmacs 21.  Is it
perhaps compiled with debugging enabled?  You will see some fairly
drastic speed improvement if you ./configure --error-checking=none
--debug=no.