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Oh, but that isn’t the problem. It’s that the old ZIP support issues 1-byte reads exclusively. https://nitter.net/ericlaw/status/1399856554690715659 https://ni
by fuzzy2 3y ago
Oh, but that isn’t the problem. It’s that the old ZIP support issues 1-byte reads exclusively.
https://nitter.net/ericlaw/status/1399856554690715659 https://nitter.net/ericlaw/status/1399856554690715659
- formerly_proven 3y ago> [David Cutler] expressed his low opinion of the Unix process input/output model by reciting "Get a byte, get a byte, get a byte byte byte" to the tune of the finale of Rossini's William Tell Overture.
- the8472 3y agoI don't see what that has anything to do with unix or stdio? The read/write syscalls will happily transfer much larger buffers. If an application invokes the syscalls directly with 1-byte chunks it's on the application. userspace IO buffering to amortize syscall costs exists in pretty much every language.
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- smackeyacky 3y agoCutler didn’t just lose once to Unix, he lost twice. First with VMS in minicomputers, and second with docker on cloud. Now Microsoft are turning windows into an ad infested mess, he’s about to go to loss #3
- lenkite 3y agoHow can the "loss" be even be blamed on Cutler ? He doesn't choose his CEO