Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Cnews performance?
Message-ID: <1989Jun23.194724.2047@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <9476@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us>
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 89 19:47:24 GMT

In article <9476@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us> zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff) writes:
>Here are some times for cnews vs. 2.11.14 to process a single 
>compressed batch (~50K) ...

This surprised us considerably.  In some ways it is not a fair test, since
newsrun (if you run it once an hour as we suggest) will normally amortize
setup and teardown overhead over a considerable number of batches, not just
one.  However, it's also true that it had gotten a bit flabby.  The just-
released patch streamlines it quite a bit.
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