0.7.6? how about 0.8.0?

[Graham Wilson]

On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 12:39:02AM -0400, David Relson wrote:
> At 12:17 AM 10/27/02, Graham Wilson wrote:
> >On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 01:41:52PM -0400, David Relson wrote:
> >> Another feature worthy of a 0.1 increase is the ability to run
> >> bogofilter as a daemon (with memeory mapped wordlists).  That should
> >> help performance significantly for large sites and for people running
> >> bogofilter with large test data sets.  Again, I won't say "daemon" is
> >> the same as 1.0.  We'll add it in when we have it.
> >
> >i dont think that neccessarily needs to go into the main binary, unless
> >it is only a small amount of additional code. we could always compile
> >two binaries: bogofilter and bogod (or something like that).
> 
> What I have in mind is to have the main binary running as a daemon.
> When procmail (or other program) needs a new instance of bogofilter, a
> small front end program is loaded that passes the email to the daemon.
> The small size of the front end would be the first time/space savings.
> The daemon would (should) have the wordlists in memory, so bogofilter
> wouldn't need to keep opening/closing them.  The wordlists would be a
> second time/space savings (likely bigger than the first savings).
> Early on in bogofilter's development, ESR had it running in a similar
> fashion.  I'd like to find out whether doing this is beneficial, or
> not.

i think it is a good idea to give people the option to do it that way if
they want, but i also think people should be able to do it either way
(daemon or not).

--
gram
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