On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Manvendra Bhangui <[email protected]> wrote:
> It does have. The flexibility of writing in C is that I can further reduce
> the syscalls. It gives me so many ways to manipulate my environment. On a
> server like a mail server which is processing few million mails a day,
> choice between using spamassasin written in perl or using something like
> bogofilter in C makes as much difference as to reduce the number of servers
> by half. In troubled economic times, each syscall counts and I cannot
> explain the relief and the pride one feels when one sees on the top screen
> (/usr/bin/top), to see the load dropping, the moment you engineer something
> like this.
>
So you've actually done something like this in production code?

Roshan Mathews
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