Re: Speed difference in Gnus

Stephen> Sure. I can name a number of them. Contributions on any Stephen> of them would be welcome. Stephen> (2) I suspect redisplay is slowed dramatically by code Stephen> kluged in to ensure correct display of the native widgets. Stephen> I know for sure that in Xft most everything gets displayed Stephen> twice on every redisplay. Stephen> (3) Regexp issues. It's not hard to write regexps that Stephen> behave badly in loops, and XEmacs's regexp implementation Stephen> has had problems with corner cases. Stephen> (4) Algorithms. I suspect that for most packages GNU has Stephen> a decided advantage in terms of the amount of developer Stephen> time that goes into optimizing for them, and there's a Stephen> strong bias toward designing things that are efficient for Stephen> GNU, and then hacking in XEmacs support later. Ok I see, how could I test that in the case I mentioned (copying and moving a lot of msg from imap folders to nnml folder, or even between imap folders) is slow? Can I run some kind of profiler to find out, in of the points mentioned above could be the culprit? Uwe