[Spambayes] Using mxBeeBase as hammie DB

M.-A. Lemburg mal@lemburg.com
Thu Oct 17 12:21:20 2002


M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> Is anyone interested in trying out mxBeeBase as hammie DB ?
> 
> It is pretty fast, portable and seems to work out nicely.
> Oh yes, and the generated DB files are much smaller than
> for e.g. hammie with dbm backend.
> 
> You do need the latest egenix-mx-base-2.1.0b5 installed
> though.

Just to put some numbers by the fishes:

Teaching hammie 13000 messages from comp.lang.python
gives a database size of 23MB (that's data + index).

Checking a single message takes 200ms on my Athlon 1200
(this includes Python startup time).

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Marc-Andre Lemburg
CEO eGenix.com Software GmbH
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