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From: tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: One more minor speedup (Was: CNews building up files in "in.coming")
Message-ID: <1989Oct23.033330.17853@rpi.edu>
Date: 23 Oct 89 03:33:30 GMT
References: <1989Oct22.192159.4827@acd4.UUCP>
	<1989Oct23.023759.17067@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY
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In <1989Oct23.023759.17067@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
Henry> Because there is a noticeable performance loss in doing *anything*
Henry> unnecessary on each pass through the inner loop.  As it is, on systems
Henry> with high-performance shells (with the "test" command built in), when
Henry> space is plentiful the inner loop runs compress and relaynews, period.

Tangent comment: NNTP-only C News sites can take out the compress and
c7decode tests/processing in newsrun.  Just comment it all out but
make sure "text=$f" still executes.  Some admins mighn't have noticed
this.
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