> > We don't want to open and load a text file each > > time a new type is found. > True, that would be dog-slow.
We need to think about Linux/OSX, this will be first use of registry access in ICS, I've already done some stuff to help decoding MIME email content. > > I agree that memory is needed for all the MIME types, so it > > probably > > wants to be a global object shared between multiple servers, maybe > > with the existing code left as a default. > > IMO memory use of 200-400 short MIME type strings is minor, nothing > we should worry about today. Are you sure? If there are say six listen sockets, do we really want to load and keep separate MIME tables for each? > Lookups from a hash table are hell-fast, until there are collisions. I've only used binary search lists, mostly written before Delphi got hash lists, and was expecting more than a few hundred items so there would be several tests to find an item. Angus -- To unsubscribe or change your settings for TWSocket mailing list please goto http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twsocket Visit our website at http://www.overbyte.be
