Re: Speed difference in Gnus

>>>>>"Ben" == Ben Wing <ben(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: >>>>> >>>>> Ben> Raymond Toy wrote: [snip] Ben> hmm. well, the byte-char algorithm was changed between b18 and b19. Ben> but various other things changed between 18 and 22 as well. could you Ben> try compiling b19 and see whether it gets slower or faster? ideally, Ben> both b18 and b19 should be optimized, without error-checking. >From my old mails, I profiled b18 and b20; I never tried (or even downloaded) b19 for some reason. I'll give that a try soon. And I see from my old mails, I tried b20 with the --disable-kkcc and --disable-mc-alloc. Still slow, but somewhat better. Things got better when I disabled error-checking, but still quite a bit slower.