Quoting Amos Gouaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >>>>> On Thu, 22 Nov 2001 17:13:19 +1100, > >>>>> Jeremy Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (jh) writes: > > jh> I'm sure we all understand the dangers of hacking at internal > structures. > jh> There's also performance benefits associated with this. It's up to > solution > jh> developers to decide whether that trade-off makes sense in their > particular > jh> case, and would be based on benchmarking and analysis of the level of > jh> maintenance required if internal structures change. > > While I guess it's always possible, I'd be somewhat surprised if > going through the protocol is really that much of a bottle neck.
Agreed. Doing stuff in perl or any other scripting language might be slow, I'm guessing that compiled code would be fast enough for most applications. I'd also submit that playing with the cyrus.* files on a running system is just asking for trouble. FWIW, there is no documentation on the cyrus.* files other than the source code. I found this out while writing the SORT/THREAD code. Ken -- Kenneth Murchison Oceana Matrix Ltd. Software Engineer 21 Princeton Place 716-662-8973 x26 Orchard Park, NY 14127 --PGP Public Key-- http://www.oceana.com/~ken/ksm.pgp
