On Tuesday, October 11, 2005, at 01:36 AM, Clive Taylor wrote: > I know this is a well-discussed topic but I'm afraid this is just > not true - at least here. My biggest gripe about TB! and its IMAP > implementation is the sheer turgid feel of the prog while its > working. Recent betas have become unusable again but if I feel the > urge to use TB! for a particular resaon I fire up 3.60.01, the ONLY > version where its speed matches Mulberry.
Let me give you an idea of what I mean. When I start up Mulberry, it starts with a clean cache. It does a quick message count check. TB! does a lot more when it displays those counts. Not only does it do a simple count, but it updates the message list since if you open the folder, you'll see the new messages listed. It also does flag updates. If you have thousands of messages in each folder, then this can take a while. When I now select a folder in Mulberry, it downloads just the last 20 headers. Only 20!. That folder could have 10,000 or 30,000 messages in it. Mulberry downloads only the last 20 so that you can get going with reading. However, TB! needs to retrieve the entire message list before you can read a single message. TB! also has to maintain and keep up to date that message list. Mulberry doesn't. I vividly recall using Mulberry with MDaemon that doesn't support server side threading. Whenever I selected threading, Mulberry would ask if I wish to thread the entire list or just those messages displayed. If I chose the entire list, Mulberry would spend an eternity retrieving the entire message list. It takes LONGER than TB! to do the same. Ask Gary about it. :) Mulberry's speed comes from efficiency. You do far more with much less transfer of data. TB! is doing too much in the background and requires too much data transfer to be productive. Those who synchronise folders, especially large folders, exponentially increase the size of transfer making things even that much worse. This is an ongoing thing too, even after getting the entire lists headers. Each time I select my TBBETA folder after new messages are retrieved, there's this pause as TB! goes through the process of verifying the flags etc. for all 3500 messages. Mulberry does none of that since it doesn't work that way. As a result it works faster. -- -= Curtis=- Using TB! v3.61.10 Echo (Beta) System Specs: http://specs.aimlink.name =-=-= ...I hit the CTRL key but I'm still not in control!
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