[Mailman-Developers] 2.1.8 documentation mismatch

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Thu, 08 Jun 2006 17:06:43 +0100
Ian Eiloart <iane at sussex.ac.uk> wrote:

> That's fair enough. I do have an idea about how to use a python
> script with Exim. I don't know enough to make it efficient, though.
> Maybe there's a problem with my python installation, or the way that
> I invoke it, but it seems that even a simple query takes four or five
> seconds to run:
> 
> rinka-12 # date ; /local/mailman/bin/list_members ian-test4 ; date
> Thu Jun  8 16:47:09 BST 2006
> foo at example.ac.uk
> bar at example.ac.uk
> baz at example.ac.uk
> Thu Jun  8 16:47:13 BST 2006
> 
> But, it takes about 0.7 seconds to print "hello world", and truss
> shows a lot of files being opened just to get a list of members.

You should definitely use time(1) instead, but to open and print a 3
member list should be nearly instantaneous.  FWIW, it only takes me
about 1/2 second to do the same on a 2500 member list on fairly old h/w.

- -Barry
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