[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> That's the one problem when mathematicans start to program.
> Usually very little attention is being paid to performance
> optimizations.
Cough.
I take exception to that! Though I'm no DJB, the PhD after my name
means I can claim to be a mathematician. The performance of qmail is
quite impressive--and a major reason for qmail 2 is to improve it even
more. Suggesting that DJB doesn't pay attention to performance is just
stupid.
> One can actually see that in qmail. Well thought out and
> very modular. Lots of performance expensive design decisions though.
Like what? Do I smell the fork/exec flame war smoldering afresh?
> If SPAMmers can do 200K messages per hour then we should be able to
> do that as well when sending legit stuff!
You can. Just make sure that you send a single email, with a CC list
of size 200K. Then you can get performance comparable to spammers.
Len Budney, PhD
--
I wasn't talking about sendmail+shell versus sendmail. I said you
would need dozens of subshells to make _qmail_ as slow as sendmail.
-- Prof. Dan Bernstein
