[ILUG] qmail vs sendmail Was: Bad response

Mon Jun 12 18:16:42 IST 2000

On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 06:08:11PM +0100, David Murphy mentioned:
> Quoting <20000612180528.B25640 at digiserve.ie>
> by "John P. Looney (Kate)" <jplooney-ilug at online.ie>:
> 
> > On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 05:38:42PM +0100, David Murphy mentioned:
> > > Quoting <20000612172953.V23440 at digiserve.ie>
> > > by "John P. Looney (Kate)" <jplooney-ilug at online.ie>:
> > > >  There is also the fact that compiles are lightning quick - it takes about
> > > > 30 seconds to compile the 23000 odd lines of (dense) code.
> > > How often do you compile your mail system, though?
> > 
> >  That's not the point. It's just something I was impressed with. Now I
> > know why it doesn't take that much quicker to compile a program now than
> > it did on the RS6000's in DCU, which were prolly 40Mhz POWER
> > chips...header files are getting bigger...
> 
> You didn't know CPUs have gotten faster faster than disks have? Where
> have you been? Why did you think parallel makes went faster, even on
> one processor? Sheesh.

 I'd thought of that, but not till you realise that no system headers
speeds a make something like fivefold to you realise how little code you
have to write anymore!

 Anyone that can read C - download the qmail source, and look through it.
And be scared...

 Discussion on Sony "opening" the playstation2...
    http://www.arstechnica.com/wankerdesk/2q00/openps2-1.html

Kate

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