Speed difference in Gnus

[Uwe Brauer]

>>>>> "Hrvoje" == Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic at 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