Fw: Fw: [Mimedefang] SpamAssassin 3.2.0 and re2c speedup

Kevin A. McGrail kmcgrail at pccc.com
Wed May 2 15:27:54 EDT 2007


>From the proverbial horse's mouth!

Regards,
KAM

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Justin Mason" <jm at jmason.org>

> In "real-world" terms, it works out at between 15% and 25% faster in my
> testing.  Unfortunately, "two orders of magnitude" would be accurate if
> perl's regexp engine wasn't as good as it already is, and if SpamAssassin
> didn't do a significant amount of *other* work in its rules, apart from
> the simple body rules...

>> > Has anyone played with SA3.2.0 and the "sa-compile" program to see
>> > if it really makes that much difference?  One poster claimed
>> > "two orders of magnitude" which is quite astonishing.




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