On Wed, 2 May 2007, Tony Finch wrote:

> On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Magnus Holmgren wrote:
> 
> > What do you think about having certain predefined macros available? One such
> > macro could be CONFDIR, and I can also imagine macros that are defined
> > according to which features are compiled in.
> >
> > The point of these macros would be enabling the writing of more reusable
> > configuration files/snippets, and for the macros being macros is so they can
> > be used .include and .ifdef directives, and also in settings that aren't
> > expanded.
> 
> Sounds useful, especially for packagers like Debian.

Does anybody care about performance any more?

If you have a pile of macros defined, Exim is going to scan each config 
line for those macros every time it reads the config, which is something 
that it does often.

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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service
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