[Mimedefang] Virus scanner order in v2.40

[Aaron Paetznick]

Maybe.  I'm a perl fanatic myself, but even I would guess that a deamon 
written in C might scan faster then a perl module.  I don't have any 
hard numbers, so I defer to others experience.


--Aaron



Royce Williams wrote:
> Aaron Paetznick wrote:
> 
>> initialize_virus_scanner_routines() defines a certain order of 
>> scanners, with File::Scan being first.  For people who run ClamAV, it 
>> might be slightly more efficient to list clamd first before 
>> File::Scan, and the impact to non-ClamAV users would be zero.  Thoughts?
> 
> 
> Since File::Scan is already loaded by MIMEDefang, it runs without having
> to call an external program.  Without having any actual stats at hand,
> it seems reasonable to conclude that you get a lot of bang for the buck
> by having File::Scan make the first pass.
> 
> -royce
>