[comp.mail.elm] alias.hash

jessea@dynasys.UUCP (Jesse W. Asher) (07/12/90)

I was curious why the alias.hash file is so much larger than the actual
alias.text file?  Is the speed gained by hashing so much faster?

syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein) (07/12/90)

jessea@dynasys.UUCP (Jesse W. Asher) writes:
>I was curious why the alias.hash file is so much larger than the actual
>alias.text file?  Is the speed gained by hashing so much faster?
Its not the hashing speed thats so much faster as the fact that
that file is just a dump of the incore table.

Its size is set by the size of the incore table used and that
is set by the Configure script at compile time.
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