On Sat, 25 May 2002, Bob Arning wrote:

> There may be several factors that add up to the difference you see.
> One of them is that in 2.8, selecting a class did NOT select a method
> category and thus showed an empty message list. In 2.9, the '-all-'
> category gets selected by default and this causes the message list to
> be populated. Bigger classes take longer to do this.

<sheepish>That would explain that, then</sheepish>.
Ok, so that benchmark was useless.  However, the slowdown is still there
(honest!); I'll have to find a cleaner way of demonstrating it.