I agree, perl won't perform well on windows in many cases, and you just pointed out the real problem. Don't try to adapt things to a different os, make them as natural possible...
I discharged running spamassassin on windows (that perl is for *nix), that's why I ported a spamc to windows, so I can talk to a *nix server through tcp/ip. Ciao Dario ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michal Altair Valasek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 9:45 PM Subject: [xmail] Re: XMail Platforms ( was Re: Xmail reports -- anyone have a wish list?) > Hi, > > |There are people who run a Windows 2003 box as just an XMail server > |-- to me that doesn't make sense, since with the same hardware, you > |could load Redhat from disk, install Xmail from RPMs and have just > |about the same ease of install and management as Windows 2003 (and, > |if I remember correctly there's a significant performance boost when > |using XMail on Linux). On the other hand, some people just like > |Windows. > > not only "like" but "know" is the keyword for me. There is very few people > who really understands Windows AND Un*x. Give ordinary Un*x admin a Windows > box and Windows admin a Un*x box and the result would be same: bad. > > I would not use Un*x. Never, nowhere. Even in cases when it's from > performance and so on reason the best. Because I do not understand it and > have no chance to be as good as on Windows (and have no time to try it). So, > when I run something, it must be either on Windows (then I can handle it) or > a blackbox hardware solution from respectible company. > > For me it's simply cheaper and simplier to buy a stronger machine, than > learn other OS. > > I would not like to see Win/Lin flamewar here. I personally have nothing > agains Unix-based OS and so on. But Windows and Unix are two different > worlds. Only very few projects is *really* working on both. > > Just now I am fighting with Perl on Windows to run SpamAssassin. The > performance is HORRIBLE. Maybe its my fault, but I can't see it. In native > ..NET application I know where the bottlenecks are. In Perl I don't know and > no chance that I'll learn in some reasonable time. > > Simply don't mix the worlds. Please. > > -- Altair > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
