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From: flee@dictionopolis.cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee)
Subject: Re: C news: expire, and batcher
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Date: Mon, 27 Aug 90 23:36:21 GMT
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Actually, it's pretty cheap to get rid of Xref: in "batcher", if you
assume that Xref: lines are always first.  It's somewhat less than the
cost of a strncmp plus a strchr per article.  Doesn't really feel like
it's worth it though, given that it's just as easy to ignore Xref: on
the other side.
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Felix Lee	flee@cs.psu.edu