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From: bill@twwells.uucp (T. William Wells)
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Subject: Re: Making /usr/lib/uucp/paths a _binary_ database
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Date: 9 Jan 89 07:33:28 GMT
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In article <860@mailrus.cc.umich.edu> honey@citi.umich.edu (Peter Honeyman) writes:
: you're trading cpu time for disk space.  i think it's a lousy deal.

I doubt that that is true. Since the thing would reference the disk
less often, thus doing fewer block copies (not to mention kernel traps
and disk reads), it is likely to use less CPU time.  Also, the
existing code has to do a fair amount of data-skipping which may well
be as costly as the decoding of my database format.

This, however, is a matter for experiment.

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Bill
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