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