On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 11:16:23 -0800 Ted Mittelstaedt <t...@ipinc.net> wrote:
> Larry Wall never envisioned the octopus monstrosity that Perl has > become. Um. Just because you can write overly-complex slow Perl code doesn't mean that all Perl code is necessarily overly-complex or slow. > Not that I am unhappy with the existence of SA but anyone who uses it > must understand that an enormous amount of CPU power is wasted on SA > merely due to the inefficiency of it being written in Perl. While Perl is part of the problem, a lot of the problem is SA itself and some of it is simply the nature of content-based anti-spam techniques... slinging around regexes, normalizing HTML, extracting URLs sanely, extracting Bayes tokens, etc. is going to be slow no matter how you do it. Regards, David.
