Re: [Pan-users] Speed of pan

[Duncan]

On Friday 04 October 2002 20:58, Jim Henderson wrote:
> I'm still running Pan 0.11.4, which is not as good with memory
> management (as I understand it) as the current releases, running on an
> AMD Athlon XP 1800+ w/640 MB of RAM, and it runs very well here.
>
> But then again, most things run very well on this hardware. :-)
>
> Joe User wrote:
> > I noticed that pan seems rather slow, particularly on startup.  I
> > currently run it on a K6-2 350Mhz machine with 128M ram running
> > icewm.  I also have a windows machine with a 1.4Ghz Athlon and 256M
> > ram.  I am contemplating switching the two machines, so the faster one
> > is the linux one.  I was just wondering how much better pan runs on
> > faster machines before I take on this task.  There are other linux GUI
> > programs I'm looking to speed up as well.  Does pan run as fast as,
> > say, Agent does on windows?

Pan recently changed the way it handled startup, and doesn't have to read the 
entire cached set of messages b4 it shows the main window, now.  Startup is 
indeed **MUCH** faster, particularly with large message stores.  I believe 
the update was in 0.13.0, or 0.13.0.9x, the 0.13.1 beta series.

I don't know how Agent ran in MSWormOS, as I used OE until I switched to Linux 
(in large because by the time I knew what a stinker OE was, I was already 
planning to switch to Linux, so it made no sense to invest more time in 
learning a new MSWormOS program), but that startup was the big thing.  Pan is 
much faster there, now.

The biggest wait I have now has to do with image rendering, and that isn't PAN 
itself, but one of the GTK libraries, I believe.  Sometimes images take 
longer to load than I'd like.

However, in both cases, Pan is reasonably comparable to OE on MSWormOS, at 
least.  The other big thing here is that the 0.13.0.9x beta series finally 
fixed the memory leak I'd been observing for some time.

-- 
Duncan
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