[tpop3d-discuss] mailspool_save_index() using STDIO

Chris Elsworth chris at shagged.org
Mon, 1 Jul 2002 21:05:45 +0100


On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 06:14:46PM +0100, Chris Lightfoot wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 03:14:58PM +0100, Chris Elsworth wrote:
> > 
> > Ok, understood.. unrelated note.. has there been much call for a
> > dbmfile authenticator? It would be very easy to replicate most of the
> > flatfile authenticator, but simply checking a dbm file instead in the
> > interest of speed where there are thousands of entries. If that would
> > be welcome, I'll work on that..
> 
> Well... dbm files are particularly easy to do in perl.
> Unless there's a really good reason, I'd have thought that
> perl is a better option for it.

Just the one word required.. speed? :)

-- 
Chris