Re: Gnu Emacs way slower than XEmacs

[David Abrahams]

Frank Schmitt <address@hidden> writes:

> David Abrahams <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Now that I've got your attention, I should qualify that.  On Windows
>> XP using GNUs and talking to an IMAP server, it's way faster to use
>> XEmacs than to use Gnu Emacs.  Nobody over on the GNUs list has a clue
>> as to why, but since they just work on elisp code they surmise it's
>> something in the emacs implementation.  I know it's a long shot, but I
>> thought someone over here should know about it.
>
> Well, for me Gnus' general performance (mainly building summary buffers
> (nntp and nnml)) is much better under GNU Emacs than under XEmacs (also
> MS Windows).

I think I'm seeing something similar.  My complaint with GNU Emacs
only applies to "almost anything" having to do IMAP transactions over
SSL.

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Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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