[JaxPM] computing values vs. storing as hash

[Nate Campi]

On the jacksonville-pm-list; Jax.PM'er Nate Campi <nate at campin.net> wrote -

On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 03:24:53PM -0500, Bill Jones wrote:
> On the jacksonville-pm-list; Jax.PM'er Bill Jones <sneex at mac.com> wrote -
> 
> >>
> >> You don't really say how many mappings there are?
> >
> > Oh, sorry.
> >
> > 8x24, or 192.
> 
> 
> Um, well, is 192 a lot?  Doesn't seem like that would have any 
> great impact.  How big are the strings data themselves (that are 
> being mapped?)
> 
> Maybe I am missing something here/Sx ???

What I'm dealing with is incoming UDP traffic, so no connection queues,
just a receive buffer that drops packets when it gets full. I want to
make this a lean mean packet-accepting machine.

The strings aren't big (facility/severity syslog strings, remember?).
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