Re: RFC: Going the LDAP/Kerberos way with NetBSD.

[der Mouse <mouse%Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA@localhost>]

> I did some careful tests for similar kinds of files on a 3B2/400 back
> in the late 1980's and found that even sorting the file and using a
> binary search was a waste of time, effort and complexity for fewer
> than at least 300 records.

For what ratio of file loads to lookups?  A tradeoff that's correct for
a short-running program doing three lookups may well not be for a
long-running daemon that does several million.

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