Jay J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on 20 July 2000 at 07:00:04 -0500
> So why the FIFO? I'm concerned about spawning many-a-Perl at 2.5MB
> each on my lowly P75 DNS/Firewall/qmail box. So the idea of a single
> reader is attractive ..
>
> Is that crazy? Suggestions? (Other than "Pentium II's are cheap") :-)
AMD K-6's are cheap? :-) Compared to what your time is worth....
Write your procedure in C?
Test performance of the perl version to see if your concerns are
supported? The 2.5MB each includes considerable code shared between
all invocations on the systems I'm familiar with.
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