Henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Wrote: >The Trouble Is That Getdate() Is Relatively >costly And Geoff Is Reluctant To Run It On Every Single Article .

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...henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) wrote:
>The trouble is that getdate() is relatively
>costly and Geoff is reluctant to run it on every single article

...and then all sorts of people started coming up with rube goldberg
schemes to avoid parsing dates. However, it turns out that even using
C news's getdate (which is 10% slower than the B news version), parsing
the dates in every article in a full Usenet feed takes about five Sun 3
CPU seconds per day. And if you were to use the lex-based date parser
included in the MH distribution, you could get it down below a second
per day, although it hardly seems worth the (minimal) effort.

-- Jef Poskanzer (jef@well.sf.ca.us)

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