[Users] Compound search is very slow

[Liz]

On Wed, 29 Jun 2016 13:17:15 -0700
Dave Stevens <geek at uniserve.com> wrote:

> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I'm talking about the search field appearing just below the message
> > list and just above the single message box, and I'm talking about
> > its leftmost dropdown set at "extended".
> > 
> > Perform the following search:
> > 
> > al 1 & b through
> > 
> > If your situation is anything like mine, this will take far, far
> > longer than just al 1 (date is indexed and is selected immediately),
> > and subjectively a lot longer than you'd imagine it should take to
> > search the bodies of today's and yesterday's emails.
> > 
> > I haven't looked at the code, but I have a feeling it's (slow)
> > body-searching a lot more messages than just those selected by al 1.
> > 
> > How hard would it be for these extended searches to select left to
> > right, so the user can select by indexed values before unindexed
> > values?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > SteveT  
> 
> On my old slow Toshiba Satellite it took about a second or two to find
> no matches in a thousand emails.
> 
> D

Odd, indeed, as I have now got two matches.
Searching my quad core whatever, even through a folder of 41K mails did
not take long.

Liz