| From: | Bill Eaves |
| Date: | 28 Sep 2000 at 16:05:04 |
| Subject: | Re: Egroup Ads Re: AmiBench News |
Hello Neil
On 27-Sep-00, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> It depends on what your doing.
It seems OK for stripping ads, most of the time is taken reading and writing
the mail. The Arexx script seems to compare in speed to Cleaner no doubt
for that same reason.
I'd think twice about using a web browser written entirely in Arexx though
:o)
After all it is an interpreted language.
But its ideal for scripting as most of the hard work is done by other
applications internal commands.
> There are two ways of doing this job. If you take each mail and read it
> line by line, ARexx is very slow. Read in a batch of mails as a single
> string and chop out the parts containing the ads and you'll find it many
> times faster.
Each mail is read as one single string and handled as such. A line by line
approach would be very slow and not at all necessary.Reading in a whole
batch sounds an interesting idea but then you may end up reading in data
that you don't need to process, eg a whole bunch of emails that are not new
nor from egroups.
Regards,
Bill.
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