pazz/alot — Issue #364: Productivity
Author: triumhiz
Created: 2012-02-26 07:37:22+00:00
State: open

Well, alot looks to be rather slow.

I don't remember if this problem exists on my 2x2Ghz desktop, but its very notable on my Atom 1.6Ghz. The system is not overloaded.

It freezes for a part of a second each time I press any movement key (j, k) in search-view mode.
If I hold one of these keys down, the cursor skips over about 5 threads each time its position is refreshed (a few times a second).
Here, part of a second is, say, 0.2s. Its too much, I think.

Threads are opened slowly enough. The more messages are in the thread, the longer the pause is. 2-3 seconds for a thread of 45 messages.

I didn't see these problems in notmuch-vim, ner and bower. Bower works fine right now: smooth cursor movement in search-view,

Do you notice such behaviour too?
May it be a problem of python, urwid or alot itself? Will this ever change?