Re: [exim-dev] [PATCH] Dynamically loaded lookups -- part 1.

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Auteur: Tony Finch
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Aan: David Woodhouse
CC: exim-dev
Onderwerp: Re: [exim-dev] [PATCH] Dynamically loaded lookups -- part 1.
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, David Woodhouse wrote:
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> Next we'll probably want to get rid of lookup_list[] altogether and use
> a tree of available lookup types instead. Then we can actually look at
> making them dynamically loadable.


Why not just make the lookup_list bigger, and insert dynamically-loaded
lookups into it as necessary?

> I'm slightly dubious about getting rid of lookup_list[], because that'll
> mean we have to build the lookup tree at process startup time _every_
> time.


There aren't enough lookups for this to be a significant cost.

Tony.
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