tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) (10/23/89)
In <1989Oct23.023759.17067@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
Henry> Because there is a noticeable performance loss in doing *anything*
Henry> unnecessary on each pass through the inner loop. As it is, on systems
Henry> with high-performance shells (with the "test" command built in), when
Henry> space is plentiful the inner loop runs compress and relaynews, period.
Tangent comment: NNTP-only C News sites can take out the compress and
c7decode tests/processing in newsrun. Just comment it all out but
make sure "text=$f" still executes. Some admins mighn't have noticed
this.
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