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From: dexen deVries <dexen.devries@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Date: Thu,  3 Feb 2011 08:54:01 +0100
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On Thursday, February 03, 2011 04:35:04 am smiley@zenzebra.mv.com wrote:
> ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> writes:
> > OK, let's do a test. You write your stuff with iterators and put it on
> > a machine with 256MB. I'll create a file with a file name that is
> > 257MB long. What does your stuff do then?
>=20
> The finished version will support strings backed by file storage and
> should actually be able to handle that.  But that's still far in the
> future, at this point.  I haven't even finished coding the basic string
> operations for data in memory, yet.


"The standard rule is, when you're in a hole, stop digging; that seems not
to apply in software nowadays."


=2D-=20
dexen deVries

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