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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 21:28:07 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] rc's shortcomings (new subject line)
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> On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 16:34:10 EDT erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>  wrote:
> > my knee-jerk reaction to my own question is that making it easier
> > and more natural to parallelize dataflow.  a pipeline is just a really
> > low-level way to talk about it.  the standard
> > 	grep x *.[ch]
> > forces all the *.[ch] to be generated before 1 instance of grep runs on
> > whatever *.[ch] evaluates to be.
>
> Here the shell would have to understand program behavior.
> Consider something like
>
> 	8l x.8 y.8 z.8 ...
>
> This can't be parallelized (but a parallelizable loader can be
> written).

ya, ya.  improving on rc in a noticable way is hard.
and thinking aloud is a bad idea.  and a good way to look foolish.

- erik