From: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 07:54:55 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Re: emacs / vim - time taken to open threads
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Re: emacs / vim - time taken to open threads
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+From: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>
+To: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>, Matthew Lear <matt@bubblegen.co.uk>,
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+Subject: Re: emacs / vim - time taken to open threads
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+On Wed, Mar 25 2015, David Bremner <david@tethera.net> wrote:
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+> Matthew Lear <matt@bubblegen.co.uk> writes:
+>
+>>
+>> Despite being a vi guy for years, I prefer the emacs interface to
+>> notmuch and really like what it provides. I'm sticking with it but there
+>> is clearly a problem and I'd like to solve it. It's annoying when you
+>> know that something isn't working as well as it should be.
+>>
+>> Is it known that emacs is slower with notmuch or do you think I have
+>> some kind of build / environment problem? Or could it be due to some of
+>> the email content (doubtful) or something else such as encoding etc?
+>
+> My experience is that the emacs interface is faster than the vim one.
+> At least I don't have an examples handy where emacs is slower than the
+> vim interface at rendering a thread. At a wild guess, I suspect it has
+> to do with how many attachments there are, and the emacs UI being
+> overenthusiastic about processing attachements.
+
+I've seen over 15 seconds of load time when opening some 20+ message
+thread -- and jumping through messages has been slow in emacs ui.
+
+I have not got time to investigate this further...
+
+>
+> d
+
+Tomi