who are you again?

[Aaron Lehmann]

On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 03:35:23AM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Aaron Lehmann wrote:
> > Obligatory stupid question: why is gnupg so slow? Would a libgpg make
> > things faster, or is signature checking just an intensive process?
> 
> It's somewhat intensive, and I suspect the keyring storage isn't
> very efficient.

I've noticed. Importing all of the debian keys into my ring made
signature checking unbearably slow. I wonder if gnupg mmap()s the key
database. Or maybe the inefficiencies are somewhere else.