[Spambayes] Long load times.

[Tony Meyer]

[Tony]
> Having a smaller database file could help, yes.  (The way to check 
> this (and see how much you gain) would be to rename the file, see how 
> fast it loads then (it'll create a new, empty, database), and then 
> delete the new database and put the old one back).

[Kenny]
> Definitely test this, but in theory it shouldn't make much 
> difference. The database file is opened at load time, but the 
> contents are not read in.

<sigh>  Thanks Kenny; for some reason I was thinking pickle...

=Tony Meyer

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