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From: syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Aliases File
Message-ID: <1990Oct30.213347.19236@DSI.COM>
Date: 30 Oct 90 21:33:47 GMT
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tim@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (/// Bereket Wilbury )) writes:

>I'm a little in the dark as to why such a huge hash file needs to be created
>for aliases, whereas ''mail'', the primitive force it is, only needs one
>short ascii file.
Because the original author of Elm desired a fast loading and accessing
hashed file.  Mail just does sequential access.  But then the alaiases
in mail are not group aliases, nor are they recursive.

Does it need to be hashed?  Unsure, thats a design issue I never
worried about.

Could it be read from the text each time and the has built at startup?
Yes, and I am unsure how much overhead that would be in terms of
startup time.
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