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From: mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse)
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Subject: Re: NeXTStep interface to McGill's Archie?
Message-ID: <1991Mar10.115801.18135@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
Date: 10 Mar 91 11:58:01 GMT
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In article <1991Mar7.011758.17135@math.ucla.edu>, barry@pico.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) writes:
> [...archie...]
> (It needs to be on a faster machine though---a search seems to take
> about 10 minutes to go through the whole database.)

I suspect you don't really have much idea how huge a database it's
searching.  I'm sure it's over 10Mb and think it's pushing 100Mb.
(Confirmation, Alan?)  And there are typically ten to fifteen of them
running at once.  Ten minutes doesn't surprise me a bit....

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