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Re:My lizard brain is no match for infinite scroll by Jaruzel on Monday March 07, 2022 @02:42AM (#30585174)
What's the performance impact of such a large hosts file ?
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Re:My lizard brain is no match for infinite scroll by xxs on Monday March 07, 2022 @04:16AM (#30585724)
You gain performance by blocking thousands of sockets opened, data transferred and processed.

Host lookup should be O(1) and entirely in memory, so I see zero issue perf. wise to begin with.

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