On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 9:04 PM, Roshan Mathews <rmathews@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Manvendra Bhangui <mbhangui@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
It does have. The flexibility of writing in C is that I can furtherreduce
the syscalls. It gives me so many ways to manipulate my environment. On aservers
server like a mail server which is processing few million mails a day,
choice between using spamassasin written in perl or using something like
bogofilter in C makes as much difference as to reduce the number of
by half. In troubled economic times, each syscall counts and I cannotscreen
explain the relief and the pride one feels when one sees on the top
(/usr/bin/top), to see the load dropping, the moment you engineersomething
like this.So you've actually done something like this in production code?
Yes.