Re: OLE Discussion (was Re: Opendoc)

["Ben 'The Con Man' Kahn" <xkahn cybersites com>]

On Wed, 13 May 1998, Todd Graham Lewis wrote:

> On Wed, 13 May 1998, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> 
> > Mhm?  Yes, you get fragmentation inside the file which is trivial to
> > fix.  You just reread-rewrite the thing. 
> 
> Which is what you have to do _every single time_ when you _don't_ have
> something like a fs-within-a-file.  Witness the performance of say, pine,
> when your mail spool gets really big.

	Pine is a poor example.  Pine doesn't use an index to read its
file effiently.  If you're going to have a file act as an achive, it's
stupid not to have at LEAST a FAT.  Sure, you sometimes have to rewrite
the file from scratch, but this is problem with many well worked out
solutions.

						-Ben

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