Re: Incredible Perfomance Increase!

[Jim Davidson <jim.davidson@liberate.com>]

Wes Hardaker <wjhardaker@ucdavis.edu> writes:

> >>>>> On 16 Nov 1999 23:08:32 +0100, Simon Josefsson <jas@pdc.kth.se> said:
> 
> Simon> No, I think the speedup is due to my patch the other day that
> Simon> make Gnus use `nnimap-retrieve-groups' to find out if there is
> Simon> new news instead of `nnimap-request-group' which it used
> Simon> earlier.
> 
> Actually, in the last week or so I was considering switching back to
> nnml now that I have a laptop, and thats typically where I've been
> reading mail all the time now.  nnimap was great, but way too slow.  I 
> even was doing some profiling to try to figure out why it was taking
> so long.  It wasn't just on startup, or when fetching new news, but
> also when entering groups.
> 
> However, with the latest CVS pgnus snapshot, I'm happy as a duck would
> be after the polar icecaps melt.  Much much faster. wheeee....

Sounds encouraging.

General question: Does anyone know how soon we can look forward to a new
release of PGnus/NNIMAP, with the apparent performance improvement?

Should we instead get into the habit of checking things out using CVS, and
doing our own builds?

-Jim