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>>>... standard with C News.  If you want to pay the extra costs of doing
>>>an unpacking immediately (it does cost a little extra, it turns out),
>>>you have to work at it.
>>
>>I agree, if you use the standard C News method...
>
>Jon, it costs a little extra no matter how you do it; amortizing startup
>and shutdown overhead over multiple batches is a win even when those
>overheads are small.  

I'm not sure I agree.  A process (rnews) is already running and if you 
are going to delay processing and do it in a batch, you have to copy 
the news off somewhere (which adds disk i/o overhead) and then start 
up another process to handle it later.  It's also suprising how little 
processing doesn't get repeated for every batch - looking at newsrun, 
all I see if a few lines of minor code (like a lock creation and a 
hostname determination) that aren't in the main loop.  Plus, my rnews 
is faster than either of the C News methods, meaning that while in 
theory you might be able to gain something (what?) by doing it in 
batches, in practice you can't (with currently available code).  

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Jon Zeeff    	zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us  or b-tech!zeeff