On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 05:47:30PM +0100, Richard van den Berg wrote: > Marc Haber wrote: > > When generating a file, it is probably easier to generate two disting > > rules - will this wreck AIDE performance? > > I am not sure. Regex compares are said to be expensive operations. The > more rules you have, the more compares aide will do. You could do some > testing with 10 regexes and 100 regexes to see if you notice a > difference. My gut feeling says that the disk operations (stats) are the > limiting factor, not the regex compares on modern CPUs.
Agreed. Which way to do it do you find more elegant? Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 72739834 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 621 72739835 _______________________________________________ Aide mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.cs.tut.fi/mailman/listinfo/aide
