Re: glib outstanding stuff

[Trog <trog gtk org>]

On 05-Oct-2000 Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> Trog <trog gtk org> writes: 
>> Whats the justification for having this function?
>>
> 
> Every nice language has such a thing. (Python, Perl, etc.) We are
> trying to make C nice.

I don't disagree, but it isn't very efficient, and has limited
usefulness.

>  
>> It strikes me as a convenience function for lazy programmers who
>> can't be bothered to do things properly.
>> 
> 
> It's a perfectly reasonable way to do things in many cases. The
> only
> disadvantage is that if you have a huge file, it would be better to
> stream it in and never have it all in memory; but some files are
> only
> going to be huge if things are broken, so as long as we handle
> out-of-memory with a nice error it should be fine.
> 

Wouldn't it be better to generalise it so that we could
efficiently handle large files as well as small ones?

Wouldn't a readline() type interface (in GIOChannel) and an mmap()
based interface cover a much larger set of requirements?


-tony


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