I've noticed this as well. It's as if the style resolution problem that
killed performance whenever focus gets set has come back, though I have
no cause to believe this has regressed. It could be all the style stuff
or the reflow/invalidate work that got checked in after last Friday's build.
- David
Asa Dotzler wrote:
> Seth Spitzer wrote:
>
>> Steve Caroll wrote:
>>
>>> I just installed the 1/20/01 nightly build (had been using 12/09/00
>>> build before). I seems to me that this version of news/mail runs a
>>> lot slower. I especially notice this when i change folders -- this
>>> seems to take a lot longer. Also takes awhile when I click New
>>> Message or press control N. should I try a different nightly?
>>
>>
>>
>> See http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/win_performance_results.html.
>>
>> It looks like folder loading has gotten worse. (We're investigating
>> it.)
>>
>> Just curious, can you create a new profle and see if "New Message" is
>> as slow as in your current profile?
>>
>> I know that a big collected address book can affect performance.
>> (There bugs logged on this.)
>>
>> -Seth
>
>
> Actually, this is something recent. Today's build compared to last
> Friday's build is noticeably slower at opening folders, navigating
> messages, populating replies with original message quote and maybe
> other areas. I'm not sure what caused this but I think that anyone
> using mail last week will notice the performance degradation in
> today's builds.
> It seems like we're hitting the CPU for a longer period for the
> actions I listed above.
>
> --Asa
>
