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From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Rstat needs three size fields?
Date: Mon,  7 Jul 2003 08:33:21 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F05D809.7030707@null.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44e997e179c114d5d75e0b4b5fd0ed5a@mightycheese.com>

rob pike, esq. wrote:
> 65536 is not a very big number in modern i/o systems.

Actally neither is 2^32.
What the world needs is an efficient variable-length
encoding of unsigned integers.


  reply	other threads:[~2003-07-07  8:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-30 18:04 Sam
2003-06-30 19:08 ` ron minnich
2003-06-30 19:15   ` boyd, rounin
2003-07-04  3:18 ` Russ Cox
2003-07-04 15:04   ` Sam
2003-07-04 17:13     ` rob pike, esq.
2003-07-07  8:33       ` Douglas A. Gwyn [this message]
2003-07-07  9:03         ` Geoff Collyer
2003-07-07 15:10           ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2003-07-08  0:49             ` ron minnich
2003-07-07 15:50           ` rob pike, esq.
2003-07-07 20:38             ` boyd, rounin
2003-07-07 21:18               ` rog
2003-07-07 21:28                 ` boyd, rounin
2003-07-07 23:23                   ` [9fans] simple, sufficient rog
2003-07-07 20:54             ` [9fans] Rstat needs three size fields? Geoff Collyer
2003-07-09  2:07           ` William Josephson
2003-07-07 15:48         ` rob pike, esq.
2003-07-07 15:58           ` Jack Johnson
2003-07-08  8:32           ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2003-07-08 10:30             ` boyd, rounin
2003-07-08 11:09               ` matt
2003-07-08 11:36                 ` Dan Cross
2003-07-08 12:12                   ` boyd, rounin
2003-07-08 14:14                     ` ron minnich
2003-07-08 17:42                 ` chris
2003-07-08 20:19                   ` matt
2003-07-08 20:41                     ` boyd, rounin
2003-07-09 14:58                       ` rog
2003-07-09 19:42                         ` boyd, rounin
2003-07-10 12:30                           ` rog
2003-07-08 22:09                   ` ron minnich
2003-07-08 22:19                     ` Dan Cross
2003-07-09  1:27                       ` ron minnich
2003-07-01 21:46 boyd, rounin
2003-07-02  0:24 boyd, rounin

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