On Wed, May 02, 2007, Marc Perkel wrote:
>>> Hope not to sound to ignorant but what is a macro? Can you give an
>>> example of what that would look like?
>> Marc, RTFM. Chapter six.
> I think I see what the controversy is. Because a macro can be any string
> then you have to scan every line for every macro. If there is a
> performance issue then let me suggest this. Have the ability to set a
> compile flag that MACROS have to be UPPERCASE and at least say 6
> characters long. That should cut down on the performance problems.
And how is is going to speed up the substring search?
> Also, why aren't these macros expanded once at load time and stored in
> memory expanded?
AFAIK, the config file is being re-parsed upon spawning a new Exim
instance.
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