From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ARPAVAX:feldman
Newsgroups: net.bugs.2bsd
Title: Re:  pwhash
Article-I.D.: ucbarpa.1665
Posted: Wed Jun 30 18:37:48 1982
Received: Thu Jul  1 06:35:31 1982

When we originally wrote the pwhash code at Berkeley, we were running on
a system with about 1500 entries in /etc/passwd.  The speedup was very
noticable.  I wouldn't be surprised if for (relatively) small passwd files
pwhash didn't help.
			Steve Feldman,
			formerly of EECS 11/70 system support group