Path: utzoo!utstat!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!news From: flee@guardian.cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: Cnews and old news Message-ID: Date: 24 Sep 90 21:30:58 GMT References: <1990Sep23.042833.24834@zoo.toronto.edu> <20730@well.sf.ca.us> Sender: news@cs.psu.edu (Usenet) Organization: Penn State Computer Science Lines: 10 Nntp-Posting-Host: guardian.cs.psu.edu > parsing the dates in every article in a full Usenet feed takes about > five Sun 3 CPU seconds per day. Hmm. Parsing 6000 dates takes 3 cpu seconds on a Sun 4/490, and 12 cpu seconds on an IBM RT. Is a Sun 3 really that fast? 12 cpu seconds is probably miniscule; I don't have timings for relaynews handy. -- Felix Lee flee@cs.psu.edu