> -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Martinec [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 6:09 PM > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: Google Summer of Code 2007 ... > > Matthew Wilson wrote: > > - Full, tested, supportable multithreaded support > > - Full, tested, supportable support for an asynchronous I/O model > > (a la qpsmtpd-async) > > I think effort could be better spent elsewhere. > > Spam checking lands itself ideally to running parallel individual > processes, with little if any interaction between them. > For an individual user a reduction in processing latency from > three to one seconds doesn't mean a thing. For an entire mail > filtering system all that matters is its througput (messages per > hour). Multithreading brings no performance benefits in this area. > > Mark
I was/am primarily concerned with RAM usage for high-concurrency situations.
