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From: syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: alias.hash
Message-ID: <1990Jul12.125503.7038@DSI.COM>
Date: 12 Jul 90 12:55:03 GMT
References: <315@dynasys.UUCP>
Reply-To: syd@DSI.COM
Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc.  Huntingdon Valley, PA
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jessea@dynasys.UUCP (Jesse W. Asher) writes:
>I was curious why the alias.hash file is so much larger than the actual
>alias.text file?  Is the speed gained by hashing so much faster?
Its not the hashing speed thats so much faster as the fact that
that file is just a dump of the incore table.

Its size is set by the size of the incore table used and that
is set by the Configure script at compile time.
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