download the new version for iphoneRSS Guard 4.4.0

It felt like a turtle racing against a rabbit, when compared to other feed readers such as QuiteRSS. One point of criticism leveled against RSS Guard was the weak performance during feed updates. The developer of RSS Guard announced plans to add parallelization support to other parts of the application, including for some of the plugins that the application supports. The program uses parallelization for imports as well now, which should reduce the initial import time significantly on most computer systems. Users of the application who import OPML 2.0 files will notice a similar performance boost.

Decreasing may improve responsiveness on older systems, increasing may boost feed updates even further on modern systems.

The switch may be used to decrease or increase the number of threads the application uses. All it takes is to use -threads to define the number of threads that the RSS Guard application should use. Local tests here confirmed the enormous speed gain during feed fetching.Ī new command line switch is available to change the default number of threads that RSS Guard uses.

The developer observed an 800% performance boost on an Intel i5 system with 4 cores. The use of threads to download feed updates runs the operation simultaneously for multiple feeds. The application processed one feed at the time in previous versions, and it could take quite a bit before all feeds were updated because of that. If you have tried RSS Guard in the past, you may have noticed that the retrieval of feeds took quite some time.

Download the new version for iphoneRSS Guard 4.4.0