Theo Van Dinter writes: > Yes and no. There aren't many negative scored rules, which could easily be > put into a low priority to run first. > > The issue, which is where Matt was going I believe, is that the reason score > based short circuiting was removed is that it's horribly slow to keep checking > the score after each rule runs. You can do it at the end of a priority's run, > but then you have to split the rules across multiple priorities, which does > impact performance. > > I made some comments about this kind of thing in > http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=3109 and envisioned SA > auto-prioritizing rules for short circuiting for things like what I mentioned > in c7, but there was some strong disagreement about things like SC based on > score and so it didn't get implemented in the current code.
Well, there's room to implement it given current plugin hooks, but nobody's done it yet. --j.
