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Why is NewsGrazer so slow?

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From: Stuart Staniford-Chen
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 00:29
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I have started using NewsGrazer lately.  It's lovely to use, except that  
it's so darned slow.  I can understand that things like fetching articles
from the nntp server would be slow.  However, just hitting a menu option  
to get a submenu takes 5 to 10 seconds.  Editing this post is agony  
because it is so slow to update the window.  It cannot keep up with my  
typing and loses a lot of what I input.  

So, how can this be?  All these basic operations are in the Appkit - how  
did Adams contrive to make them so slow?  Or is it just me - is there  
something I need to tweak in order to make the interactive performance  
adequate?  

I'm using version 2.0 release 72.2 on a 25MHz 68040 with 2.1.  I have 20Mb  
memory and a 400Mb hard drive.  I don't have any similar problems with  
other apps.

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