On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 08:55:47AM -0500, Michael T. Babcock wrote:
> Peter van Dijk wrote:
>
> > > Not if it's calculated as the file is written to the Maildir.
> >
> > True, but that hurts writing performance.
>
> Have you tested this? It doesn't seem that qmail has ever been CPU bound --
> and if the CPU has spare cycles while writing, then counting lines and adding
> bytes for CR/LF won't hurt writing performance at all.
'hurts writing performance' (although you are right :) also means
'increases resource use', in whatever way.
Measuring in wall-clock time, the performance hit is probably negligible
indeed.
Greetz, Peter.