News Need Not Be Slow
- Geoff Collyer
- Department of Statistics
(Work done mostly while at U of T Computing Services.)
University of Toronto
utzoo!utcsri!utfraser!geoff
- Henry Spencer
- Zoology Computer Systems
University of Toronto
utzoo!henry
Abstract
C news is a re-write,
from scratch,
of the `transport layer' of the Usenet software.
C rnews runs at over 19 times the speed of B rnews;
C expire runs in minutes rather than the hours taken by B expire.
These performance improvements were (mostly) quite simple and
straightforward, and they exemplify general principles of performance
tuning.
- History and Motivation
- Rnews Performance
- Expire Performance
- Batcher Performance
- Future Directions
- Acknowledgements
- Appendix: rnews Times
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News Need Not Be Slow
Translated from troff by Paul Selkirk on 06 April 1995.
History and Motivation