Speed difference in Gnus

[Hrvoje Niksic]

Uwe Brauer <oub at mat.ucm.es> writes:

> Thanks, I followed both advised now the profiling results start like
> --8<------------------------schnipp------------------------->8---
> Function Name                         Ticks/Total %Usage Calls GC-Usage/  Total
> ===========================================/===== ====== ===== ========/=======
> (in garbage collection)                  49/    0 13.462                       
> get-text-property                        30/    0  8.242 16616                 
> next-single-property-change              30/    0  8.242 13926                 
> --8<------------------------schnapp------------------------->8---
>
> And given your comment above I doubt that the change of
> gc-cons-threshold had any effect.

The effect is that GC time dropped from 237 ticks to 49 ticks (a
five-fold speedup!) and from 39% to 13% of time.  That is quite
decent.