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- From: archer@frmug.fr.mugnet.org (Vincent Archer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs,news.software.b
- Subject: Re: C-news unofficial patch: freeze news batches
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.214307.8215@frmug.fr.mugnet.org>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 21:43:07 GMT
- References: <fYnlXJc@quack.sac.ca.us> <C1I4Mu.Hn7@zoo.toronto.edu>
- Organization: Minix User Group France
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- In article <C1I4Mu.Hn7@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
- >The new GNU "gzip" program is supposed to do considerably better. (It may
- >also be faster; "freeze" is really slow,...
-
- It is. A sample over 130K news batches from comp.windows.x showed that
- freeze and compress really lose.
-
- The batches are compressed to about 58K, frozen to 40K, and "gzip"-ped
- to 34K. While the gain is not as much as between compress and freeze,
- it is still appreciable.
-
- The CPU needed is somewhat between compress and freeze. It would be
- really hard to beat the simplicity of compress. :-)
-
- >... I'm debating how to handle this in C News; I
- >really, really do not want to have to maintain an ever-growing list of
- >magic numbers inside newsspool.
-
- Simple. Revert to the old B-news scheme of things: If it begins with a
- #! something, then pipe the remainder thru the filter
- /usr/lib/newsbin/unbatch/something to produce the newsbatch before
- calling relaynews. Then users can add without worrying unbatching methods,
- just like they can add batching methods now.
-
- (To speed up the thing, newsspool should store batches as .t files if they
- are text or #! rnews batches, and .x - for example - if they begin with
- an unbatching method header)
- --
- Vincent Archer Email: archer@frmug.fr.mugnet.org
- Reality is for those who can't face Science Fiction.
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