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From: page%swap@Sun.COM (Bob Page)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus
Subject: GNUS vs. rn
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Date: 29 Jun 89 22:48:19 GMT
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rich@sendai.ann-arbor.mi.us wrote:
>Purely subjectively, it [gnus] *feels* faster than rn on my machines.

I tried switching from rn to GNUS when 3.12 arrived, and couldn't take the
enormous performance hit.  rn was so much faster I had to change back.  I
was waiting more than 30 seconds between selecting a newsgroup and entering
subject/article mode.

If it matters, I'm using a news spool that's nfs mounted, rather than
using NNTP.  All the GNUS code is byte-compiled.

I had high hopes for GNUS, and still do, but the speed difference was quite
noticable.  GNUS is so flexible I'd like to give it another try, but I need
to get the speed problem - which apprently doesn't exist everywhere - fixed.

..bob