Re: Speed difference in Gnus
>>>> "Hrvoje" == Hrvoje Niksic
<hniksic(a)xemacs.org> writes:
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Hrvoje> For the longest time I believed this to be a result of
Hrvoje> XEmacs's implementation of text properties on top of
Hrvoje> extents. I planned to convert Gnus to use extents
Hrvoje> natively, in the hope that it would speed up summary buffer
Hrvoje> generation. But according to profiling, most of the time
Hrvoje> is spent in `insert', at least once you discount excessive
Hrvoje> GC by increasing gc-cons-theshold. I'm not sure what
Hrvoje> XEmacs is doing wrong here. I suspect Mule is to blame,
Hrvoje> but I can't prove it.
No, I don't think so, I use no-mule xemacs-21.4.17 and it is slow as
well.
Uwe Brauer