Re: [Pan-users] Header pane sorting slowness

[Charles Kerr]

On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 07:11:01PM +0200, Samuli K?rkk?inen wrote:
> Sorting the header pane by a different field appears to take time in
> proportion to total number of articles in the group, even if the filters
> filter out most of the articles. Obviously this is because pan seems to
> perform the filtering stage again upon every sort. This seems unnecessary,
> given that choosing a different field to sort by, AFAIK, cannot change the
> list of articles shown.
> 
> With very large groups, it would be a nice performance improvement to not do
> the unnecessary refiltering, but just the sorting.

This is a good idea; please file a bugzilla report.