On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 02:21:11PM -0700, Brian Pane wrote:
> I spent some time recently profiling the latest 2.0 httpd source with gprof.
> One surprising bottleneck that showed up in the results was the find_ct
> function in mod_mime, which spends a lot of time in apr_table_get
> calls. Using the default httpd.conf, the tables for languages and
> charsets are somewhat large, so the time spent scanning them on each
> request is significant.
>
> It looks straightforward to fix this by replacing the tables with hash
> tables.
> Is anybody working on this already? If not, I'm willing to contribute a
> patch if there's interest.
Sounds like a great idea to me. I was thinking of doing the same with
methods and header fields, but have no time to do it myself.
....Roy
