From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npois!cbosgd!mark
Newsgroups: net.news.b
Title: Re: history() in inews
Article-I.D.: cbosgd.2420
Posted: Tue Jun 29 13:04:30 1982
Received: Wed Jun 30 03:34:00 1982
References: sri-unix.1948

The problem with hashing is that there is no universal hash software.
libdbm is only on V7 and 4BSD, not USG.  There is a B-tree package
available inside the labs, but it can't be distributed, and isn't
universal even inside.

Probably what will happen is that libdbm will be used and the entire
source will become part of netnews, much like index/rindex now.
Certainly this issue needs attention.

By the way, I can't think of any reason why 2.7 would suddenly be slower.
There is a fork bug introduced with recordings that is fixed in 2.9,
but this only makes it SEEM slower when posting directly from the
terminal.  rnews coming in wouldn't be affected.

	Mar