Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!ucbvax!ANDREW.CMU.EDU!bader+ From: bader+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Miles Bader) Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew Subject: Re: messages - a confession Message-ID: Date: 10 Jul 90 22:05:49 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 13 I know few andrew users that actually use an AMS mailer to read their mail. I use more(!). If it's something I want to deal with, I'll let AMS churn on it for a while and answer it later. The process could almost certainly be sped up (at what cost, I don't know), but dynamic loading time is not the problem (it's just as mind-bendingly slow when you're using a long-running messages). I also doubt that not having the AMS code be shared (a side-effect of it's being dynamically loaded) is any big deal, since very few people run >1 simultaneous AMS programs [although there might be things like AFS libraries that might be productively shared between, say, AMS & console; I'm not really sure]. -Miles