Stephen Donner wrote: > http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/win_performance_results.html > > I've mentioned this before, but I'm glad to see we finally did this... > > I don't know who landed this fix, but I'm glad it landed. > > Here's the old vs. current behavior for multiple selection (that I > used to time Batch Delete Speed). > > OLD: > > When you multiple select outliner items, we would always display the > 1st selected item in the list in the Message Pane. > > CURRENT: > > Now when we multiple select outliner items, we don't display any > message contents in the Message Pane.
That was bug http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118278 A similar fix was made to the addressbook. But naving has also checked in some recent fixes for batch delete, so I'm not sure which (or both) made the difference. > How this helps perf: On batch deletion, we would always have to clear > the Message Pane contents. Now, our batch delete looks much faster > since we're not doing this. See the data below (all in seconds, time > to batch delete 5 messages from a Local Folder): > > 1-10 build: 0.86 (0.85 0.85 0.87) > > 1-18 build: 0.68 (0.67 0.70 0.67) -Seth
