[Spambayes] Using mxBeeBase as hammie DB

[Guido van Rossum]

> M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> > Is anyone interested in trying out mxBeeBase as hammie DB ?
> > 
> > It is pretty fast, portable and seems to work out nicely.
> > Oh yes, and the generated DB files are much smaller than
> > for e.g. hammie with dbm backend.
> > 
> > You do need the latest egenix-mx-base-2.1.0b5 installed
> > though.
> 
> Just to put some numbers by the fishes:
> 
> Teaching hammie 13000 messages from comp.lang.python
> gives a database size of 23MB (that's data + index).
> 
> Checking a single message takes 200ms on my Athlon 1200
> (this includes Python startup time).

Can you post or (better!) check in a variant of hammie with this
enabled?  I'd like to see this!

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)