Re: [cobalt-users] FormMail is SO slow.

[Kris Dahl <krislists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 8/23/00 8:41 AM, Patrick Béart at patrick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> At 3:47 AM -0400 8/23/00, Cmopollux@xxxxxxx wrote:
>> Has anyone had problams running Formmail.  For me it takes almost 2 min to
>> process.
> 
> FormMail.pl (Matt Wright's script) is a poorly written PERL
> program. That it runs slow is most likely indicative of both of these
> facts.
> 
> If you want it to run faster, consider a compiled (C, or
> similar) program, or a better PERL script. I use "Mailto.cgi",
> instead.

Give me a break.  You are saying that it is slow because it is written in
PERL?  DO you realize how trivial the speed difference between interpreted
and compiled languages are on a task such as this?  The different is
non-existent.

As far as it being a poorly written script, I don't think it is too bad.
There are better ones out there (I like the one that I wrote the best :))
The problem here is probably either a DNS configuration problem,
SMTP/Sendmail problem or similar.

This is *such* a trivial task that you could write a shell script to perform
it and it wouldn't be much slower than a compiled c program.

jeesh.

-k