From: Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: [sources] 20070410: % cat
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:00:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f79454c9c3358b2b00bdcd6ec80685ff@proxima.alt.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9ab217670704130725k7baf92b3ve84862ec71130a14@mail.gmail.com>
> Do you know anybody who has ever come up with a better idea? This is
> very similar to Maildir replacing mbox. It sounds good, but when you
> have 250k messages, it ends up being slower simply to traverse the
> directory. In FreeBSD anyway.
>
A valid comment, I must grant. I guess I'm hoping the better idea
will not be overlooked by a NIH when it does present itself.
> However, it does scale. Much, much better than a case where you have
> the same requirement for thousands of systems in a switch () statment.
Also valid. But a database lookup would be even better, would it not?
That has got to be kept in mind, like or not. Thinking out of the box
is called for, will it ever happen?
++L
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-13 15:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2007-04-13 6:00 ` Lucio De Re
2007-04-13 14:25 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2007-04-13 14:56 ` erik quanstrom
2007-04-13 18:22 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2007-04-13 21:39 ` Paweł Lasek
2007-04-14 14:51 ` Russ Cox
2007-04-13 15:00 ` Lucio De Re [this message]
2007-04-12 18:41 [9fans] Re: [sources] 20070410: % cat >/sys/lib/dist/changes/1176262206.1.txt << EOF Russ Cox
2007-04-13 4:18 ` [9fans] Re: [sources] 20070410: % cat Lucio De Re
2007-04-13 4:59 ` geoff
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2007-04-12 18:25 [9fans] Re: [sources] 20070410: % cat >/sys/lib/dist/changes/1176262206.1.txt << EOF ron minnich
2007-04-12 18:38 ` [9fans] Re: [sources] 20070410: % cat geoff
2007-04-12 18:43 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2007-04-12 16:08 [9fans] Re: [sources] 20070410: % cat >/sys/lib/dist/changes/1176262206.1.txt << EOF Devon H. O'Dell
2007-04-12 17:42 ` [9fans] Re: [sources] 20070410: % cat geoff
2007-04-12 18:00 ` Anthony Sorace
2007-04-12 18:16 ` Russ Cox
2007-04-12 18:57 ` Anthony Sorace
2007-04-13 4:04 ` Lucio De Re
2007-04-13 4:58 ` geoff
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