On Thursday, Jul 31st 2003 at 14:24 +0100, quoth Nick Leverton: =>I'v been reading with interest the recent thread on regular expression =>performance. Has anyone ever done any performance figures on, for =>instance, large whitelists though ? A client of ours wants to whitelist =>all their regular correspondents. Sounds reasonable except that there =>may be over 10,000 of them across all the client's users ! => =>Nick
To me that sounds pathological. Why do 10K names processed via regex when you can do it via substr instead? The overhead difference would be gigantic. (Of course I don't really know how it is set up in the first place.) -- -Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have - -happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's license say Organ -Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to me! We are all- -individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question? steveo at syslang.net ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100003ave/direct;at.aspnet_072303_01/01 _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
