[Pan-users] speed of "Get new articles"

[Gert]

Hi,

I have a question. Do you think it is possible to shorten the time pan
spends processing the newsgroup after getting the new headers? I am
subscribed to a binary newsgroup which has about 300.000 articles, and I
just clicked on the get new article headers menu item. It started
downloading, which it finished after a minute of 5, fetching the 90.000
new headers. That was 29 minutes ago (and yes, this problem is common
;).
I don't quite know what it is supposed to be doing now (other then
consuming CPU cycles ;), but I doubt it is more then inserting
structures in a sorted linked list (/tree) ?

Well, anyway, I'm using 0.13.0 (the one in debian testing).
[update it just finished, 33 minutes on a P3-450].
The website reported a tweak "Lots of speed tweaks, particularly in
refreshing the header pane." for 0.13.2.90, so maybe I'm just whining
and not useing a recent enough version, but I'd still like to know why
it takes so long (and wether it has been fixed).

regards,
        Gert
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