> I'm not seeing a hit on 'next'. A quick "just pound on 'next' and
> watch the wall clock" test shows me able to go through 20 messages in
> under 5 seconds, so it's well under 250ms per switch, but I'm seeing a
> really piggy CPU spike (100% for a few seconds) in the 'flist' code.
> Of course, it seems to be related to number-of-folders:
I have 167 folders (!) and run with bg-proc set to flist (1 minute).
I see delays, but not that much. Maybe 1-3 seconds (which tend to
disappear these days). This is on a PII-266.

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