Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: CNews building up files in "in.coming"
Message-ID: <1989Oct30.020657.6388@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1989Oct22.192159.4827@acd4.UUCP> <1989Oct23.023759.17067@utzoo.uucp> <1989Oct25.023352.8840@twwells.com> <9686@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us> <254859E3.19004@ateng.com> <9690@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us>
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 89 02:06:57 GMT

In article <9690@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us> zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff) writes:
>>C News overhead isn't "horrible" no matter what you look at...
>
>I posted test results awhile back showing that C news was slower than
>B news*.  Given the design goals of C news, this is horrible.  Please post
>your test results that show otherwise.

Well, apart from the fact that some of the problems you noticed have
since been fixed, the number of people who see a major performance
*improvement* -- including us -- is sufficient for a strong suspicion
that you're measuring the wrong thing somehow.
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