From: Paul Duncan <pabs@...>
Date: 2002-06-22T05:27:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Are Unix tools just slow? (OT)

* Chris Gehlker (gehlker@fastq.com) wrote:
[snipped]
> We seem to have come full circle. I started these threads by asking whether
> find and similar tools like stat sacrificed speed for portability across
> file systems or whether they were sometimes optimized for particular file
> systems. It seems that there my be optimized tools but they aren't called
> 'find', 'stat' or what have you.
> 
> So the question for Ruby is whether to live with what we have, add methods
> to use the faster tools when they are available, or develop something fast
> and portable using a database and FAM.

FAM uses polling on systems without kernel (eg Linux sans the imon
patch) or dnotify support, and therefore is subject to the same speed
considerations as find, stat, etc.  

I'm flattered that my FAM bindings were mentioned, though. ;)

> -- 
> Laws are the spider's webs which, if anything small falls into them they
> ensnare it, but large things break through and escape. -Solon, statesman
> (c. 638-c558 BCE)

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