> The native views of thunderbird are wonderfully performant
Are we using the same Thunderbird? For me it feels rather sluggish.
Are we using the same Thunderbird? For me it feels rather sluggish.
It's near instantaneous at everything, except when it's doing network operations. It literally does a keyword stem search on a 4GB mailbox in under a 1/10 of a second. That's the fastest inverted index lookup I've ever seen - all accomplished with just sqlite. I consider it amazing. It makes the old version of Outlook look like a dog. A one legged dog. And the leg is broken.
As others have noted, as soon at it has to access the network it slows down. A lot. And it you queue up enough operations, it can get confused - particularly if the network drops out in the middle and it has to re-sync everything. But it is imap, so I forgive it.
To get it's native non-networked speed, you do have to ensure every folder is downloaded to local storage. Do that, and it's amazingly quick.
It is one reason why the other day we have a submission "Windows NT on 600MHz machine opens apps instantly. What happened"
Most people aren't latency sensitive. Or do not care about it enough. The world of computing has then settle of sluggish behaviour being the norm. As most are OK with it.
The question is whether that additional work is of any benefit to the user.