Re: Gnu Emacs way slower than XEmacs

[David Abrahams]

address@hidden (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> David Abrahams <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Believe it or not, I'm familiar with good bug reporting practice.  The
>> problem is that I don't know whether anyone's interested in looking at
>> it and I feel that I can't give much detail about the problem.  I can
>> say that it's been reproduced by others, though.
>
> Hm.  Could you go down a bit to a lower level?  For example, Gnus
> invokes nnimap on IMAP groups, which in turn invokes imap.el to do
> the actual network communication.
>
> Maybe you can devise a sequence of function calls from imap.el that
> show the slowness?

That's a bit beyond me.  To really see it in a conclusive way, you
need to download a message with a large attachment.

> Are you talking SSL with your IMAP server?

Yes indeed.

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Dave Abrahams
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