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From: "Ethan Gardener" <eekee57@fastmail.fm>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Are there disadvantages to walk?
Date: Tue,  2 Apr 2019 10:46:36 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1ab0f7e8-7028-40d3-a844-ad3f52cd1111@www.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1859706859.14691305.1554148175942@mail.yahoo.com>

On Mon, Apr 1, 2019, at 8:53 PM, Brian L. Stuart wrote:
>
> The only complaint I've had about walk was the expectation
> in the protocol that servers produce the list of Qids all
> the way down.  That got in the way when experimenting
> with a server that used a hash table of full path names
> to speed the walk process.

I can see how that would be a problem.  Thanks.



  reply	other threads:[~2019-04-02 14:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1859706859.14691305.1554148175942.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
2019-04-01 19:49 ` Brian L. Stuart
2019-04-02 14:46   ` Ethan Gardener [this message]
2019-04-01 10:27 Ethan Gardener
2019-04-01 16:26 ` hiro
2019-04-01 16:32   ` Ethan Gardener

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