[Spambayes] Ditching WordInfo

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Sat, 07 Sep 2002 02:06:31 -0400


> > Maybe.  I batch messages using fetchmail (don't ask why), and adding
> > .4 seconds per message for a batch of 50 (not untypical) feels like a
> > real wait to me...
> 
> Yeesh.  Sounds like what you need is something to kick up once and score
> an entire mailbox.
> 
> Wait a second...  So *that's* why you wanted -u.
> 
> If you can spare the memory, you might get better performance in this
> case using the pickle store, since it only has to go to disk once (but
> boy, does it ever go to disk!)  I can't think of anything obvious to
> speed things up once it's all loaded into memory, though.  That's
> profiler territory, and profiling is exactly the kind of optimization
> I just said I wasn't going to do :)

We could have a server mode (someone described this as an SA option).

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