Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Cnews performance?
Message-ID: <1989Jun23.194518.1969@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <89Jun23.003815edt.11717@neat.ai.toronto.edu>
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 89 19:45:18 GMT

In article <89Jun23.003815edt.11717@neat.ai.toronto.edu> lamy@ai.utoronto.ca (Jean-Francois Lamy) writes:
>I think that a lot of things are done in the input subsystem in a
>general, but inefficient way...

The just-released patch streamlines newsrun considerably; it had got kind
of flabby and baroque.  However, Jean-Francois is correct in saying that
it will usually be a performance win to exploit special knowledge of the
nature (e.g. all compressed, none compressed) of your feeds.
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