I have a question regarding searches. At what point does it become more
profitable to do a dbm search rather than a lsearch? For instance, if
looking up aliases how many entries do you need before a dbm search is
faster?
I'm sure I remember reading in the exim manual that dbm searches are
cached (although I can't find it now) so my gut feeling is that a dbm
search will always be faster regardless.
Glenn
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Dr. Glenn Carver, Phone: +44 (1223) 336524
Centre for Atmospheric Science, Fax: +44 (1223) 336473
Cambridge University, Chemistry Dept., glenn@???
Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW, UK http://www.atm.ch.cam.ac.uk/~glenn/
"Someone told me that each equation I included in the book
would halve the sales."
Prof. Stephen Hawking, 'A Brief History of Time', 1988.
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