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Re: A possibly suspect idea
From: Martin Gregorie <martin_at_nospam>Date: Fri Mar 12 2010 - 13:52:01 GMT
To: users@spamassassin.apache.org
On Fri, 2010-03-12 at 08:15 +0200, Henrik K wrote:
> Why don't you simply maintain your wordlists in some files and use a script
> to generate portmanteau.cf? You could use Regexp::Assemble module to
> optimize also. Who cares what the actual rules look like? The more words
> (simple alternations) there are in a single RE, the better it performs. If
> you want clarity in the cf, keep the original words listed in a comment
> block.
>
....because that didn't occur to me.
Its a good idea. Better yet, my rule development & test environment can
be easily extended to incorporate it. Thanks.
Your comment about a single regex containing many alternations being
more efficient than several smaller ones raises two questions:
- what is the maximum line length for such a rule?
- does the order of alternations have any effect on performance or
is alphabetic order good enough? It would certainly make rule
generation simpler.
Martin