[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on 9 April 1999 at 08:53:51 -0700
> Got it.
>
> That's the one problem when mathematicans start to program.
> Usually very little attention is being paid to performance
> optimizations.
>
> One can actually see that in qmail. Well thought out and
> very modular. Lots of performance expensive design decisions though.
Reliability is a goal taking priority over speed for qmail, which may
explain the design decisions you're seeing.
> If SPAMmers can do 200K messages per hour then we should be
> able to do that as well when sending legit stuff!
Spammers don't care about reliability; or rather, they'd be happy with
98% or 99% and a high rate of sending. I, on the other hand, would NOT
find 99% success at delivering mail satisfactory.
> PS. Hehe... yes, I'm trying to provoke somebody into more
> performance.... ;)
Dan is supposedly hard at work on qmail 2.0, using "zeroseek"
queueing to produce greatly improved performance without sacrifice of
reliability.
Since qmail performance is already at the top of the heap (somewhere
around it), a great improvement will be really spectacular!
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