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List:       darcs-users
Subject:    Re: [darcs-users] [OT] Larry McVoy on the Bitkeeper licence
From:       Matthias Andree <matthias.andree () gmx ! de>
Date:       2005-02-18 11:29:00
Message-ID: m3sm3u85tv.fsf () merlin ! emma ! line ! org
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David Roundy <droundy@abridgegame.org> writes:

> avoid holding it in memory.  Even for the linux kernel, the contents of the
> complete patch inventory are pretty darn small (only 26k patches or so).
> So I figure it's better to hold in memory than to reread from file (or
> worse, from network).

Stupid question: why does the application have to care for holding the
stuff in memory, rather than the operating system's buffer or cache?

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Matthias Andree


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