Performance (was Re: [imp] IMP H3 (4.0) (final))

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting Steve Lidie <sol0 at Lehigh.EDU>:

> IMP 4 seems to be (much) slower than IMP 3.  On a fast Win32 box with 1
> GB memory running XP Pro, login to an account with 2,000 mails on IMP3
> requires a few seconds and 45 MB of memory on the PC.  The same account
> on IMP4 requires 2-3 *minutes* to login and uses 117 MB of memory.  The
> IMP 4 machine is bigger and faster than the IMP 3 machine and, not
> being production, has no load at all.  Assuming performance comparisons
> have been made, is what I am seeing expected behavior?

Expected? No. And that sounds awfully extreme. But IMP 4 hasn't been
performanced tuned the way that IMP 3 (being available stable for around 3
years) had been.

-chuck

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