[spambayes-dev] cant live without xmlrpcserver

[Skip Montanaro]

    Toby> Since giving it up I have noticed (but not measured) a reduction
    Toby> in classification throughput. I guess this is due to overheads of
    Toby> starting a whole new process for each classification.

What version of Python are you using?  Startup time got worse between 2.2
and 2.3.  At the moment the culprit which caused the problem remains at
large.

    Toby> What I *think* I want is an sb_filter-like process that will use
    Toby> an existing sb_xmlrpcserver daemon if it can, start a new deamon
    Toby> if it cant, and the deamon to shut itself down after a period of
    Toby> inactivity. Has anyone else any desires (or code ;-) for something
    Toby> similar?

I think you'd still take a startup overhead hit if you didn't code your
sb_filter proxy in C.

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