Hans
Alexander Viro writes:
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> On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Hans Reiser wrote:
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> >
> > 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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