Complexity of reallocating storage (was users command crap)

Tom Christiansen tchrist at convex.COM
Tue Feb 5 03:05:27 AEST 1991


>From the keyboard of oz at yunexus.yorku.ca (Ozan Yigit):
:In article <5883:Feb102:05:4991 at kramden.acf.nyu.edu> (Dan Bernstein) burps:
:>In article <21548 at yunexus.YorkU.CA> oz at yunexus.yorku.ca (Ozan Yigit) writes:
:>> To rephrase: ... you are using poor programming techniques. No program
:>> should make multiple passes over a disk file when it could accomplish its
:>> task with a single pass with hardly any effort on the programmer's part.
:>
:>If you spent a minute putting your priorities into order you'd realize
:>that this is an entirely ridiculous generalization.
:
:Well, I am sure you would know about ridiculous generalizations. Those
:were your own words plus a trivial meaning-preserving transformation.
:
:keep up the cyclically self-disputing silliness.

Well, that's what you get when you trade postings with Dan.  It's
like playing patty cake with a schizoid King Kong.

--tom
--
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### And now for the question of the month:  How do you spell relief?   Answer:
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