From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] seek() in fossil?
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 10:29:38 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E34437E.3080405@null.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56bdfd682af03e2cf62bd4473efc7599@mightycheese.com>
rob pike, esq. wrote:
> Do you know how big 2^64 is? It's not twice as big as a gigabyte.
> Let's say we had a gigabit ethernet and we wanted to write a 2^64
> byte file. It would take more than a thousand years.
But we're talking about addresses; the data could be sparse.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-27 10:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-26 17:43 andrey mirtchovski
2003-01-26 19:01 ` Russ Cox
2003-01-26 19:10 ` David Presotto
2003-01-26 20:03 ` Russ Cox
2003-01-26 19:18 ` rob pike, esq.
2003-01-26 21:25 ` Mike Haertel
2003-01-27 10:29 ` Douglas A. Gwyn [this message]
2003-01-27 15:18 ` Russ Cox
2003-01-27 15:21 ` Russ Cox
2003-01-27 15:18 ` Russ Cox
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