Re: Chandler, Python, speed

2009-03-08 Thread Tim Wintle
On Sat, 2009-03-07 at 22:05 +, Ville M. Vainio wrote: Alan G Isaac wrote: 3. Chandler is not really an email client. So specifically, which of its functionalities is it slow, and what evidence if any is there that Python is causing this? I remember reading somewhere that the cause

Re: Chandler, Python, speed

2009-03-08 Thread Ville M. Vainio
Ville M. Vainio wrote: Alan G Isaac wrote: 3. Chandler is not really an email client. So specifically, which of its functionalities is it slow, and what evidence if any is there that Python is causing this? I remember reading somewhere that the cause of slowness is/was architectural -

Re: Chandler, Python, speed

2009-03-07 Thread Ville M. Vainio
Alan G Isaac wrote: 3. Chandler is not really an email client. So specifically, which of its functionalities is it slow, and what evidence if any is there that Python is causing this? I remember reading somewhere that the cause of slowness is/was architectural - perhaps it was that chandler

Re: Chandler, Python, speed

2009-03-07 Thread alex23
On Mar 8, 8:05 am, Ville M. Vainio vivai...@gmail.com wrote: I remember reading somewhere that the cause of slowness is/was architectural - perhaps it was that chandler was persisting too much stuff to disk, or something. In any case, this might help you google for more detail. My

Re: Chandler, Python, speed

2009-03-03 Thread Alan G Isaac
On Mar 2, 1:11 am, Paul Rubin wrote: Mitch Kapor (of Lotus 1-2-3 fame) spent a lot of money hiring very sharp Python programmers to write an email client called Chandler, but from what I understand, progress so far has been disappointing, at least in part for performance reasons. Paul