[sylpheed:36296] Re: A performance problem (rant).
John
john at neodoc.biz
Sun Mar 22 18:44:00 JST 2015
On Sun, 22 Mar 2015 10:41:13 +0200
John Found wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Mar 2015 19:51:33 +0200
> John Found <johnfound at asm32.info> wrote:
>
> > I got it. It works. Well, it is some kind of cheating for me, but
> > better than nothing. ;)
> >
>
> BTW, it is a cheating, because so big performance degradation shows
> some sub-optimal computational complexity (big O(?)) that probably
> need to be fixed.
>
> One more observation: if the user hides the search panel, the speed
> degrades instantly.
>
> IMHO, the speed of browsing need not to be tied to the searching
> features. These two features of the client are different and need
> different approach. For example, searching something (by the
> "search" feature), the user usually accepts some delay, but delay
> during manual browsing (which is actually a visual search by the
> user itself) affects the user performance and this way is not
> acceptable.
Then let's see if Fresh ( http://fresh.flatassembler.net ) can solve
these "unacceptable problems" you are concerned about.
For my part I've been using this MUA for about 12 years. I simply
can't see how it one can even begin to compare an email client with
a browser as you appear to be doing.
John
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