Re: Time taken for nnvirtual..

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no>]

Andy Eskilsson <flognat@fukt.hk-r.se> writes:

> Are nnvirtual constructed to be slow??

Yes.  It was faster before, but it wasn't as versatile.

> The question arises when I have
> a nnvirtual group containing about 5-10 huge newsgroups, (well I only
> read the abpe hierarchy for testing purposes *cough* *cough*) about
> 3500 unread articles..
> 
> Ok. I press space on that nnvirtual group.. tumdedumm. wait for a long
> while, fires up a slave reads the groups one by one with normal
> reading, and are finished *before* the nnvirtual group is finished
> with it's 'nntp-reading'.

This sounds odd.  nnvirtual is slow, but not *that* slow.  For
instance, I have the ~10 Emacs groups gathered in one virtual group.
It uses ~2 seconds to scan the group.  Entering the group doesn't take
much time...

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