[MlMt] What takes time at startup?

[Benny Kjær Nielsen]

On 7 Feb 2016, at 0:09, Helen Holzgrafe wrote:

> Just for your information, with my set up of about 350000 messages 
> (far less than a third of what Patrick and Steven have). My startup 
> was around 10 minutes, too, like theirs. So, I think it's more about 
> the chunks of data MailMate needs to keep in memory at a time rather 
> than how much data in total.

You could also try the debug variable I told Patrik about if you want to 
get a better idea of what is taking the most time (I'm not saying the 
output is very readable though -- it's mainly intended for my own use 
when debugging performance issues).

> I don't know what database you are using, but many of the better ones 
> have a whole set of "queries" that you use instead of the basic one 
> that are designed to bring in a part of the data at a time and as you 
> use the data releases the memory and rolls in more automatically, thus 
> reducing memory thrash.  I cannot recall the name for those kinds of 
> queries and they are not that easy to use, but may be necessary to 
> resolve these issues. I believe the Apple Developer standard database 
> does have those, but I am not totally certain.

MailMate has its own “database” system. I don't really think it 
could do what it does now with any off-the-shelf solution (while being 
able to handle the same types of queries). If that sounds a bit arrogant 
then I can live with that :-) (I'm not saying it couldn't be better 
though.)

-- 
Benny