who are you again?

[M. Drew Streib]

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On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 07:04:16PM -0700, Aaron Lehmann wrote:
> 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.

It is a known problem that keyring size hurts performance more than
linearly.

I know that Werner is working on this now. I hope we see it in >1.0.6.

- -drew

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