> "Lance" == Lance A Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "Bryan" == Bryan O'Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Brian> This is just the resultant overhead of doing lots of
Brian> processing. I'm not sure there is anything you can do about
Brian> it, other than try to optimise like crazy. The same can be
Brian> said for GNUS, which (no insult intended) nobody in their
Brian> sane mind would use due to its incredible sloth; I found it
Brian> unbearable on a SPARC 10, for goodness' sake.
Lance> This is more than just waiting on a compute-intensive task
Lance> to finish. My BBDB has about 750 entries in it and used to
Lance> come qup quite quickly. My GNUS killed newsgroup listing in
Lance> thousands of groups long and only used to take a few seconds
Lance> to come up.
Lance> I don't know when, but something changed to slow things
Lance> down. It may have been when I was migrated from FSF Emacs
Lance> 19.21 to 19.22.
Aha!
There is a bug in the sort code for 19.22 that makes it dog slow. It
is the same reason that C-hb is so slow. RMS posted a patch soon
after the 19.22 release, and of course I have lost it. If anyone has
it, I'd appreciate a copy.
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