Re: size of news.dat & yarnpack
From: Albert Y.C. Lai (trebla@vex.net)
Date: Sat, 04 Jan 1997 15:16:17 -0500
In article <Jnnzy4q8POBd092yn@mt>,
gro.oi@mt (---{Q[7]Qo.) wrote:
>Yarn of course checks all imported articles against every other
>messages ID already in the news.dat -- no duplicates allowed... so
>naturally the more messages you have the exponentially longer amount of
>time it will take to import new messages...
Er, quadratically longer? :)
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Albert Y.C. Lai trebla@vex.net http://www.vex.net/~trebla/