Re: dbm .v. lsearch

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Auteur: Philip Hazel
Date: 1997-03-10 14:19 -000
À: glenn
CC: exim-users
Sujet: Re: dbm .v. lsearch
On Mon, 10 Mar 1997 glenn@??? wrote:

> 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.


Only within one run of Exim. It has been hypothesized that you need more
than a file buffer's worth of list to make it worth using dbm, but I
don't actually know.

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