Re: UW imap c-client

[Mark Moll <mmoll@cs.cmu.edu>]

>>> On 29 Mar 1999 20:46:13 +0200, Simon Josefsson (SJ) wrote:
SJ> The major bottleneck would then be that it takes a long time to enter
SJ> a folder, this is impossible to fix without heavy modifications of
SJ> Gnus, and for me this isn't a major problem anyway (entering a folder
SJ> with ~1200 articles takes ~25 seconds with 9s spent in nnimap for
SJ> me. I can live with that).

SJ> Do you agree with my observations of where the bottlenecks are? Which
SJ> things in nnimap are slow for you?

The bottleneck for me seems to be entering a folder. For a folder with about 
100 messages it takes about 8 seconds to build the summary buffer. (This is
on Sun SparcStation 5.) I don't know how much of that is spent in nnimap. I
guess I can live with that... 

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