[Dovecot] 1.0 beta 1 feature request: passwd-file vs. prefetch

[Timo Sirainen]

On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 12:22 +0100, Matthias Andree wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Jan 2006, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> 
> > > Is this planned for a future version or would the benefits be too small
> > > to justify that?
> > 
> > I don't think it would benefit much. It'd be one less hash table lookup,
> > but those are fast anyway. And it would require more code..
> 
> Is dovecot really hashing plain passwd files and checking if they have
> changed before access to re-read and re-hash them?

Yes. So using passwd-files should be fast, as long as they aren't
changing constantly.
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