From: Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)
Date: Fri Apr 13 2001 - 23:13:35 CDT
Henry Spencer <henry@spsystems.net> writes:
> Does not follow. It's quite conceivable to have software that is
> optimized for the typical case, but can handle the more general case
> with some loss in performance. Case-insensitivity, in general, has some
> cost.
Is there any widely deployed news software that does this? INN doesn't;
it just always does a case-insensitive comparison. Given the other
constraints of a news server and the speed of modern processors, I don't
think that the difference would even be noticeable, and definitely
wouldn't be worth the additional complexity of the code to attempt a
case-sensitive comparison first.
-- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>