🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <CKD.93Jan22182456@loiosh.eff.org> ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis) writes:

   I haven't had time to try it yet.  Other things have taken priority.  (I
   haven't installed the nov database yet anyway, so GNUS2 wouldn't do much
   good to me, would it?)

Actually, GNUS2 biggest efficiency wins are in sorting and threading
(if I may plug my own software, here.) Header retrieval is much faster
if you have nov or an XOVER'ing nntpd. But even with gnus3.14, the
time spent getting headers is dwarfed by comparison with the time
spent threading and sorting.

GNUS2 can retrieve, sort and thread approx 500 articles in 47 seconds
(on a sun 3/60). The same process with Gnus3.14 takes close to 7
minutes (both using NOV spool access to get the articles). I believe
the threading is better also. GNUS2 doesn't orphan articles whose
parents have expired, for example.

So you don't need NOV to benefit :-)

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