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From: peter@taronga.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: UUNET Funds C News Development
Message-ID: <XBV3S8B@taronga.hackercorp.com>
Date: 4 May 91 12:07:47 GMT
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brendan@cs.widener.edu (Brendan Kehoe) writes:
>  Because a lot of the shell scripts are *never* modified. I rewrote a
> few of them (anne.jones, tear, and spacefor) in C, and the speed
> increase and reduction in load on the system's markedly clear.

Of course you had already modified anne.jones:
> Message-Id: <6MA+RMH@cs.widener.edu>

I have made several mods to anne.jones, and I'm surprised that there is a
detectable increase in performance overall. After all, anne.jones only gets
called for local articles.
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