Re: [Nmh-workers] What OS/Architecture Do You Run nmh On?

[Paul Vixie]

Ken Hornstein wrote:
...
> you said:
>
> > And the programs I tried worked fine. Running best scan time
> > for 200K messages, scan+gc takes 13.5 seconds while the
> > regular scan 7.4 seconds.
>
> To me a performance penalty of 50% is not worth it, but I'd be willing
> to hear from others.

the various design choices made in MH and in many cases still present in 
NMH were all performance-related. consider the old "MATCHC" logic as an 
example, or the reuse of buffers today vs freeing and re-allocating.

if we didn't care about performance, we'll get more benefits overall 
from switching to python or perl than we will from using C-based GC.

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P Vixie