Newsgroups: news.software.b Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Cnews and old news Message-ID: <1990Sep24.154021.27283@zoo.toronto.edu> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <1990Sep23.042833.24834@zoo.toronto.edu> <20730@well.sf.ca.us> Date: Mon, 24 Sep 90 15:40:21 GMT In article <20730@well.sf.ca.us> Jef Poskanzer writes: >... it turns out that even using >C news's getdate (which is 10% slower than the B news version) I'm a little curious to know where the timing difference comes in, because C News getdate *is* the B News getdate. The only thing we did to it was a small fix that John Gilmore (I think) pointed out, for an unchecked array bound. > parsing >the dates in every article in a full Usenet feed takes about five Sun 3 >CPU seconds per day... The question is not absolute time but relative time: how much does it add to the time needed to file articles? I am frankly surprised that it's this quick, actually; some investigation is in order. >Would anyone care to post a patch to have C news do the date check? >Seems like it should be about two lines of code. It's not quite that easy. C News doesn't even notice the Date header at present; we don't even parse headers we don't need to know about. -- TCP/IP: handling tomorrow's loads today| Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology OSI: handling yesterday's loads someday| henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry