On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 10:57:28 -0500, Sqwertz wrote:

> On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 12:26:53 -0400, blake murphy wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:08:48 +0200, ChattyCathy wrote:
>>
>>> Long live Adblockplus! <g>
>>
>> i don't know what kind of overhead it incurs (firefox has been a little
>> poky for me lately), but it's well worth it.
>
> It actually speeds up browsing.
>
> The only overhead is matching all fetched URL's against a (yes -
> fairly large) list of regular expressions. The algorithm that do
> that are extremely efficient and are a breeze for a modern processor
> (2Ghz+). And there is practically no disk access.
>
> The time saved by *nbot* fetching the link to the ads more than make
> up for it. CPU cycles are extremely cheap compared to
> network/internet throughput.
>
> -sw

cool.

your pal,
blake