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Date: Thu,  3 Feb 2011 10:45:05 -0800
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From: Skip Tavakkolian <skip.tavakkolian@gmail.com>
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cool! it seems you could implement an fs with unlimited name length
using the file-backed-strings and store the data as the file name;
very efficient.

On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 7:35 PM,  <smiley@zenzebra.mv.com> wrote:
> ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> writes:
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>> 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?
>
> The finished version will support strings backed by file storage and
> should actually be able to handle that. =A0But that's still far in the
> future, at this point. =A0I haven't even finished coding the basic string
> operations for data in memory, yet.
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