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Martijn_Dekkers's avatar
Martijn_Dekkers
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Jul 25, 2006

Improving performance - more smaller rules or fewer large ones

As we are now really getting hooked on using iRules, (awesome stuff, iRules) I am wondering what is better for performance, fewer, but larger iRules, or more, smaller ones.
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  • hoolio's avatar
    hoolio
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    Jul 25, 2006
    Hi,

     

     

    I'm under the impression there shouldn't be much of a difference. You can use the timing function to compare:

     

     

    timing

     

    Click here

     

     

    And if you search for 'timing on' in this forum, you can find some related posts:

     

     

    Calculating statistics with 'timing':

     

    Click here

     

     

    a1l0s2k9's post on writing fast iRules:

     

    Click here

     

     

    Perhaps someone else can comment on the specifics of your question though.

     

     

    Aaron