[Pan-devel] Re: [Pan-users] Speed of pan

[Charles Kerr]

On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 01:35:06PM -0500, John J. LeMay Jr. wrote:
> ** Reply to message from Ronald KA4INM Youvan <address@hidden> on Sun,
> 06 Oct 2002 00:23:45 -0400
> 
>>    Also important is that your mommy board's IDE controller's chip set's
>> driver is in your operating kernel, so your drives are operating in the
>> highest DMA mode the drive/s use.
>> (because you controller chips are younger than your distro. - non Intel only)
> 
> Pan starts here now in just about 1 second from click to the gui being up. On
> the older machine (ATA-66 and a 5400RPM disk) the startup time was closer to 5
> seconds. Startup times for other "piggy" apps like Mozilla and OpenOffice are
> even more noticable.

The startup time is due to Pan walking through your cache files to find out
what you've got there.  I suppose we could store these message-ids in a file
and use that instead of walking through the cache directories.  That should
make Pan start up immediately regardless of the cache size...