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Me and my friend were pretty serious about creating a new data structure called "drum". A drum is a one way store. You write to it but can't read from it. We pu
by WWKong 13y ago
Me and my friend were pretty serious about creating a new data structure called "drum". A drum is a one way store. You write to it but can't read from it. We put it off till we figured a practical use.
- akurtzhs 13y agoBackups? People tend to treat them that way anyways.
- justforonereply 13y ago/dev/null is a nice implementation.
- statusgraph 13y agoAn append only log? The value of writing data is that you can read it, otherwise your structure is semantically equivalent to not writing at all.
- dllthomas 13y agoOr reading some information computed from it, I suppose. Something needs to read it, ever, for that of course, but it doesn't necessarily need to be exposed in the interface.