Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: latest dbz vs. ndbm?
Message-ID: <1989Nov15.182030.2504@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1989Nov12.013643.1358@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us> <779@orange19.qtp.ufl.edu>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 89 18:20:30 GMT

In article <779@orange19.qtp.ufl.edu> bernhold@orange19 (David E. Bernholdt) writes:
>I run B-news on a Sun with OS4.0.1 which has ndbm.  Can anyone tell me
>how dbz compares to this (as opposed to plain old dbm)?  Does ndbm
>include any speedups over old dbm?  Should I be using ndbm or dbz?

If performance is your concern, you should *probably* be using dbz.  It
is heavily specialized for news, but as a result is almost certainly
faster than the more general-purpose dbm's.  I don't think ndbm is lots
faster than dbm.
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