Re: trn discussions on github

On 2025-07-10, Richard <legalize+jeeves@mail.xmission.com> wrote:

[Please do not mail me a copy of your followup]
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anthk <anthk@openbsd.home> spake the secret code
<slrn106se4d.2l3c.anthk@openbsd.home> thusly:
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On 2025-04-09, Pluted Pup <plutedpup@outlook.com> wrote:

I tried slrn last decade and it could post but
was not useful as a reader, loading too slow.
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That's odd; I run slrn on an n270 netbook with 1GB of RAM and it
runs screamly fast, I have newsgroups with over 10000 articles
and I never wait over a second.

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I was experiencing a massive slowdown with trn recently and then it
went away and I concluded that it was the server and not the
newsreader software itself.
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That said, there's still plenty of room to increase newsgroup
processing in trn as it does everything synchronously on a single
thread.

I just use slrnpull and then read everything locally, it's very handy.
As a plus you can use any client pointing to the slrn spool.
In my machine slrn opens >10000 articles in less than a second.
Atom n270, 1GB of RAM, no SSD (spinning disk).