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- Subject: Re: Cookie Cache
- Date: Fri, 21 Jan 1994 15:32:50 +1000
- From: Warwick Allison <warwick@cs.uq.oz.au>
-
- In message <m0pMplc-0000aDC@sdf.lonestar.org>, Evan K. Langlois wrote:
- >
- >I think this is a great idea. Watching the OS traces, I noticed that the
- >Freadlink call is recursive. This means that if called on 100 files
- >it doesn't get called 100 times but 100 * the number of times the path is
- >nested, so if the directory is 10 directories deep you get 1000 calls.
-
- It's nothing to do with the recursion (rewriting it iteratively would
- mean you'd go through a loop 1000 times rather than 1000 nested calls).
-
- But the need for caching as a solution to all these repeated activities
- is definately correct.
-
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- Warwick
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