Re: September Gnus 0.40 is released

[larsi@ifi.uio.no (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen)]

dhall@illusion.apk.net (d. hall) writes:

> So a possible option includes a "stealthing procedure" for the
> newsgroup (which probably pertains to asynch reading of the overview
> files).  Basically catching "snippets" of the overview file in
> gnus-large-newsgroup sections.  I'd be willing to trade time for
> memory usage in matters like this, also it'll break the waiting time
> into segments.

Reading the nov file doesn't make Emacs increase in size much.
Generating the summary buffer does.  Gnus creates all kinds of odd
thread trees (3 cons cels per article), a `gnus-newsgroup-data' list
(5 cons cells per article), and all those text properties that make
the summary buffer look all pretty an nice (I have no idea how many
cons cells). 

If you enter a group with 10000 unread articles, all those small cons
cells do add up.

> I'm don't use nnmh, and yet this needs to be loaded with nndraft,
> which I like...  which presents problems.

nndraft is a wrapper around nnmh, so you need both loaded.

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