First speed test of version 4

[Jim Levie]

On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 09:02, Julian Field wrote:
> This test was done on a dual-CPU 1GHz Pentium 3 box with 512Mb RAM.
> It's not very fast by modern standards but was quite nice when I bought it
> a few years ago...
>
> Version 3 processed 20,000 messages in 415.5 minutes.
> This scales up to 69314 messages per day.
>
> Version 4 processes 20,000 messages in 130.3 minutes.
> This scales up to 221028 messages per day.
>
> So version 4 ran 3.2 times faster than version 3 on the same hardware, with
> the same MailScanner configuration, with the same 20,000 messages.
>
Now that's impressive. Based on that, perhaps a name change to
MailZinger or MailScreamer wouldn't be unreasonable.
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