XeCycle <xecy...@gmail.com> writes: > On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 03:04:09AM +0200, lee wrote: >> >> Gnus has one big disadvantage: It can be awfully slow. > > Yes... It's more than *awfully* slow. Now I use it as a > newsreader, subscribing several groups at gmane and also > some RSS feeds. Mixing them with mail will probably be even > more slow, which is also a reason for my insisting on mutt.
So far, I have found only two things gnus is slow with: * processing incoming email is *awfully* slow * creating a summary buffer when there are *many* unread messages to show The second one isn't really an issue. The first one is currently very annoying because I still have a lot of messages that need to be processed in the process of switching from maildir to nnml --- and that's mainly my fault because I started doing it the wrong way. Still that should be much faster. It's not a fair comparison, though, because it's something mutt doesn't do. >> Mutt is awesome and totally reliable; gnus is awesome and extremely >> powerful. (I can't tell yet how reliable gnus is.) > > Recently I'm also trying Chromium; I use Firefox with > Pentadactyl now. In Chromium, I didn't find anything > comparable to Vimperator/Pentadactyl, but it's much faster > than Firefox. Well, these comparisons are similar. Chromium is a MUA? I tried it and found it can't even display PDF documents and cannot be configured to do anything but display a web page. It isn't noticeably faster than konqueror (with webkit) or seamonkey.
