From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/30524 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jack Vinson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: a faster Gnus? Date: 29 Apr 2000 16:09:06 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035167048 8934 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:24:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:24:08 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from lisa.math.uh.edu (lisa.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.49]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47C9DD051E for ; Sat, 29 Apr 2000 17:08:42 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by lisa.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAB18084; Sat, 29 Apr 2000 16:08:32 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 29 Apr 2000 16:08:01 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA12468 for ; Sat, 29 Apr 2000 16:07:52 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from elmls01.ce.mediaone.net (elmls01.ce.mediaone.net [24.131.128.25]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E41ED051E for ; Sat, 29 Apr 2000 17:06:49 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from JACKNMARCI (ro03-24-29-243-119.ce.mediaone.net [24.29.243.119]) by elmls01.ce.mediaone.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA09465 for ; Sat, 29 Apr 2000 16:10:03 -0500 (CDT) Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Home-Page: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~vinson Original-Lines: 20 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0804 (Gnus v5.8.4) Emacs/20.5 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:30524 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:30524 Hey Guys, Someone made a comment a week or two ago that, essentially, Gnus was quite slow compared to things like MS Outlook or Netscape's messenger. The person was talking about picking up mail (POP mail in my case), and thought it seemed like Gnus was a turtle to these others being the hare. One thing, as far as mail goes, is that Gnus grabs the entire set of mail at once before displaying it to the user. With these other programs, they seem to grab one at a time - displaying the new messages before all of them are downloaded. This may lead to some of the apparent speed. There are plenty of great things about Gnus, and I would like to continue using it, but if it is going to be so significantly slower, why bother? Any thoughts? -- JackVinson@Yahoo.com Bart: I will not torment the emotionally frail.