Public bug reported: There's been a major performance regression in mutt for all releases since Trusty for ~b/~B searching. I use this for highlighting messages in my mailboxes, and this regression makes mutt nearly unusable. There's a fix upstream for this:
http://dev.mutt.org/hg/mutt/rev/755a18da99bc Attaching a patch which I've tested against the version of mutt in Ubuntu. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10 Package: mutt 1.5.23-3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.1.0-3.3-generic 4.1.3 Uname: Linux 4.1.0-3-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.18-0ubuntu6 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Tue Aug 11 10:16:49 2015 EcryptfsInUse: Yes InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-02-19 (172 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Alpha amd64 (20150110) SourcePackage: mutt UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to wily on 2015-07-01 (40 days ago) ** Affects: mutt (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug vivid wily ** Patch added: "fix-search-performance-regression.patch" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1483796/+attachment/4442958/+files/fix-search-performance-regression.patch -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1483796 Title: Terrible performance for ~b/~B searching To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mutt/+bug/1483796/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs