Large chat room performance again

[Fredrik Tolf]

On Sat, 2007-04-14 at 12:46 -0400, Sadrul Habib Chowdhury wrote:
> * Fredrik Tolf had this to say on [14 Apr 2007, 18:31:44 +0200]:
> > Hi list!
> > 
> > This is my third post to this list regarding this topic, so I'm at it
> > again. :)
> > 
> > I've gotten my previous issues to work now, but there seems to be a
> > performance issue with the GTK user list when the user count is ~10000.
> 
> With this many users in the chat, does it make any sense to show them in
> the userlist at all? Perhaps your prpl should bypass _chat_add_users
> (and family) and not worry about the userlist at all.

Yes, I was thinking of that solution as well. Specifically, I thought
that it could be wise to add just the users that have actually been
chatting.

However, without the user list, I don't know of a good way to PM other
users.

Fredrik Tolf