CLIENT SPEED COMPARISONS
Machine Configuration
MS-Windows: 98 Second Edition, 266 MHz Pentium II, 128M RAM, commercial
builds
All test results are in seconds and done with
a stopwatch, error rate of ± 1 second.
* Criteria for Search:
Search subfolders (and server, if IMAP account), subject contains a non-sensical string, 'abracadabra' (to generate 0 results), or subject contains '10 hits' (to generate 10 results, I placed 10 identical messages with '10 hits' as the subject in the local/IMAP folder).
- Stephen
Machine Configuration
| Operation |
Netscape 6.x Trunk 12-03-2001 (seconds) |
Outlook Express 6 |
Netscape 4.76 |
Netscape 6.2 |
| 1. Message Reply for plaintext (8k message) |
(4.93, 2.73) |
(2.67, 0.79) |
(1.38, 0.70) |
(4.96, 3.15) |
| 2. News Message for plaintext |
(4.07, 2.34) |
(2.21, 0.66) |
(1.36, 0.65) |
(4.47, 2.87) |
| 3. Folder loading for IMAP (1000 messages) |
(1.17, 0.84) |
(0.62, 0.61) |
(1.39, 0.78) |
(2.84, 1.74) |
| 4. Folder loading for News (n.p.m.mail-news,
18115 headers) |
5.51 |
3.91 |
3.19 |
5.93
|
| 5. Get Msgs for POP (100 new messages) |
Not complete yet |
Not complete yet |
Not complete yet |
Not complete yet |
| 6. Get Msgs for IMAP (100 new messages) |
Not complete yet |
Not complete yet |
Not complete yet |
Not complete yet |
| 7. Get Msgs for News (100 news messages) |
5.52 |
5.49 |
5.06 |
5.45 |
| 8. *Search 1000 msg POP folder with
0 results and 10 results |
(1.21, 0.61) | (1.45, 0.64) |
(0.54, 0.41) | (0.57, 0.34) |
(0.78, 0.55) | (0.83, 0.73) |
(51.29, 50.25) | (50.65, 49.84) |
| 9. *Search 1000 msg IMAP folder with
0 results and 10 results |
(1.16, 0.75) | (1.87, 0.76) |
(0.41, 0.30) | (0.66, 0.33) |
(1.64, 0.27) | (0.92, 0.34) |
(0.99, 0.82) | (1.13, 0.90) |
| 10. Mark All Read for a 1000 message
POP folder |
1.84 |
1.07 |
9.27 |
2.36 |
* Criteria for Search:
Search subfolders (and server, if IMAP account), subject contains a non-sensical string, 'abracadabra' (to generate 0 results), or subject contains '10 hits' (to generate 10 results, I placed 10 identical messages with '10 hits' as the subject in the local/IMAP folder).
- Stephen