Re: Mutt 1.1.9 about 3-4x slower than mutt 1.0 (was Re: [Announce] mutt-1.1.9 is out - RELEASE CANDIDATE!)

[Clint Olsen]

Did you disable fcntl-style locking when building Mutt?

-Clint

On Mar 14, Eric Boehm wrote:
> 
> I have found that mutt 1.1.9 is about 4x slower reading a 7.4 MB mail
> file with 1451 messages in it than mutt 1.0.
> 
> I tried this several times to eliminate the effects of caching. It took
> mutt 1.0 about 7.8 seconds to bring up the file, it took mutt 1.1.9 about
> 28.8 seconds to bring up the same file.
> 
> I don't know if you would consider this a show stopper but it was enough
> for me to back out 1.1.9 and go back to 1.0.