[darcs-users] [OT] Larry McVoy on the Bitkeeper licence

[Matthias Andree]

David Roundy <droundy at abridgegame.org> writes:

> On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 12:29:00PM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote:
>> David Roundy <droundy at 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?
>
> I just mean we parse it and store the parsed information.

OK, that makes sense.

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Matthias Andree