Messages in this thread | | | From | Hans Reiser <> | Date | Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:50:37 +0000 (/etc/localtime) | Subject | Re: (reiserfs) Re: 20 years without semantic innovation is enough |
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Umm, it came from rms actually... :-)
Hans
Alexander Viro writes: > > > On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Hans Reiser wrote: > > > > > When you cat mydoc.doc, it should come out with delimiters separating > > the files according to some arbitrary syntax, that way it can all work. > > Hrrrmmmm... No offence, but... where did it come from? Some demented > LISPer? You *do* realize that such suggestion implies quoting scheme, > right? It's easy to do when the contents of file is a tree, but damn hard > when it's an array with an arbitrary contents. And such quoting will mean > that cat is not fast anymore - extra copying is not fun, especially for > situations when you have to run non-trivial loops [cost of unaligned > memory access is surprisingly high]. > > > The NFS issue was fixed by Tweedie earlier in this thread. > > Umm... Modulo recompilation of existing tools - yes.
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