[imp] Permformance issue

[Eric Rostetter]

Quoting jlewis@lewis.org:

> I'll take a stab at this.  Since IMP will use IMAP rather than direct 
> access to mail via the filesystem, putting IMP on the same system as the 
> IMAP server is likely of no benefit, and will only slow things down since 
> it's only going to take away CPU time and i/o from the IMAP server.  I've 
> always put IMP on its own box. 

In some cases your loopback interface will have much greater bandwidth
than your ethernet or whatever network, and hence it might be much
faster on one machine than on two...

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