blog about typical e-mail concerns? about deltachat-pages

[veit]

@r10s: Would it be possible to measure the performance in a realistic way compared to other implementations?

[r10s]

@veit what do you mean with "other implementation" - other e-mail programs or other messengers?

for delta chat, in the message info, the sending time and the receiving time is shown, typically, 1 ~ 3 seconds if IMAP-PUSH and the servers are working properly.

conventional messengers are typically faster as, i think, through centralization, less computers are involved.

however, i have also seen messages from Telegram, who claim to "deliver messages faster than any other application." [source] hanging around for minutes. so, there are issues with other services as well.

so, the question is: is it relevant to the typical user is a message needs 0.5 seconds or 1.5 seconds? or even 3 seconds? and how can we argue.

[veit]

@r10s Thank you for the informations. With other implementations I meant other messengers. And if the transfer of images and other files is much slower, it may affect the chat. Therefore, some measurements would be helpful for the assessment.

[r10s]

afaik the typical e-mail-delay is independent of images/text/whatever; when the first bytes are transferred the following are no longer delayed. so, for larger files, the difference might be even less significant.

[veit]

Great, thanks for the info.