Re: Shrinking the C core

[joakim]

Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org> writes:

> joakim wrote:
>
>>>> Gnus refreshes slowly, maybe that could be helped with
>>>> concurrency, but it could also be helped with more async
>>>> work in gnus.
>>>
>>> Concurrency can help you keep reading messages while Gnus
>>> refreshes in parallel, but it won't easily help you refresh
>>> faster, unless someone comes up with a way of collecting
>>> the update in parallel chunks (in which case they should be
>>> able to do that today with the emacs-async package,
>>> I think).
>>
>> Yes, one of these days I should really try one of the
>> gnus-async hacks.
>
> I've heard many times that Gnus is slow, but never
> experienced it. I have 6 servers and 26 groups.

About 700 groups, a mix of nnimap, and nntp.

nnimap is slowest. 

But its not all that slow, and Thunderbird would be equally slow I
think, and thunderbird doesnt come close organizing all thouse groups,
thats why i stay with gnus.

>
> How many do people have, for it to get slow?
>
> Or is it slow for some other reason?
-- 
Joakim Verona
joakim@verona.se