From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <508387adb98fd96b35199cacd6b09cf7.squirrel@comfortstore.net> In-Reply-To: <20100217182126.GC17100@nibiru.local> References: <20100217143303.GC10816@nibiru.local> <0ffee4ba13816a49a6360ce6668e65f2@quintile.net> <3e1162e61002170828i451c9d81ka5061e492db6e6b4@mail.gmail.com> <20100217182126.GC17100@nibiru.local> Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:38:19 -0500 From: "Corey Thomasson" To: weigelt@metux.de, "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net> User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.19 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Binary format Topicbox-Message-UUID: d5ba393a-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > > Even synthetic filesystems are good for moving bigger things to their > own services, there're many cases where that wouldnt make sense, for > example parsers. I doubt you'd really suggest putting an XML parser > to its own filesystem for real productional use ;-p (having such a > thing surely is a good idea for some cases, but for most cases an > library would most likely be much easier and efficient. > Just because a library is the better idea doesn't mean it has to be shared.