306189 - thunderbird should consist of fewer files - that makes it much faster!

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Andreas Morawietz]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050827 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050827 Firefox/1.0+

thunderbird should consist of fewer files - that makes it faster!

I'll explain it why:

- some big files could be loaden much faster from harddisk than many small files
- if you have a virus-guard active which scans every file before reading, 
this takes much time. If using fewer files, this would be much faster. 

actually TB consists of 158 files in 24 folders - without extensions! 
I think, that's too much for a email-client.
Please try to get it into fewer files, e.g. 20 files ? or fewer?

thanks, that will improve performance very very much. Believe me.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Michael (GoodWill)]

Um. Amount of files it has has nothing to do with performance.

Comment 2

[Andreas Morawietz]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Um. Amount of files it has has nothing to do with performance.

Try the following to believe me:

turn your virus-guard on
copy 100 files from one to another drive and notice the time
pack these file into a zip-archive and copy that archive from one to another
drive. This will take fewer time.

Comment 3

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

->invalid
Thunderbird isn't copying any files, so that's no real comparison. Even if there could be fewer files, there are othere reasons like maintainability that would prevent keeping everything in just a few files.