Re: Why are body searches expensive?

Timothy Luoma wrote of the truism that body searches are more work for
procmail than head searches,

| Well, I said it at least once... and my reasoning was that the body is  
| usually larger than the headers....

I got the feeling from those who said it, including Timothy, that the extra
work was out of proportion to any size difference and had to have other
contributing factors.  (Here, for example, the body is smaller than the head.)