alpine performance regression with IMAP
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| alpine (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Alpine 2.21 has a performance regression with respect to 2.20. The "folder list" screen, which used to appear instantaneously, can repeatedly take 5 to 10s to appear if one has a lot (a hundred or so) of IMAP folders, and the option quell-empty-
After correspondence with Eduardo Chappa, alpine's current upstream maintainer, he produced the attached one-line patch which fixes the issue. (See also https:/
Given that the patch looks simple, and the benefits are considerable, I'd like to suggest updating the 18.04LTS package. (18.04LTS is affected, 16.04LTS has alpine 2.20 so is not.)
| Michael Rutter (mjr19) wrote | #1 |
| Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton) wrote | #2 |
| tags: | added: patch |
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