If you are on Mac, open up your Messages and go to any thread with some historical messages. Now scroll up to load past messages, and do that a few times. How slow is that for you?
For me, when I scroll up to load historical data, it takes always multiple _seconds_. This is on the newest, highest specced m1 macbook. What the hell is it doing in that time? Multiple seconds to do read-only queries a <100MB sqlite DB (and sqlite can be incredibly fast), on an SSD with >5GB/s read speeds, with 64GB of ram (where the whole sqlite can/should be loaded into memory), to render a blue bubble with some text inside.
What is Messages doing, and why is it so bad and inefficient. I'm certain the local sqlite db has the data I need because the above bothered me so much i wrote some scripts to read my historical chats from the cli. Quality of Apple software is certainly not increasing but going downhill, you see that across many of their apps.
For me, when I scroll up to load historical data, it takes always multiple _seconds_. This is on the newest, highest specced m1 macbook. What the hell is it doing in that time? Multiple seconds to do read-only queries a <100MB sqlite DB (and sqlite can be incredibly fast), on an SSD with >5GB/s read speeds, with 64GB of ram (where the whole sqlite can/should be loaded into memory), to render a blue bubble with some text inside.
What is Messages doing, and why is it so bad and inefficient. I'm certain the local sqlite db has the data I need because the above bothered me so much i wrote some scripts to read my historical chats from the cli. Quality of Apple software is certainly not increasing but going downhill, you see that across many of their apps.