Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eric Sosman Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Disappearing API docs Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 18:19:14 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <1017aa77-c4fe-43f4-8195-4627cbc06e99@googlegroups.com> <4dvsobh2bbgkq66caohursk91t8bn9iuij@4ax.com> <27115dc3-85aa-4305-99bd-fdfdb28f390a@googlegroups.com> <859110c7-ef6c-421d-8d26-69020e21d094@googlegroups.com> <15428475-9721-4cfd-92a0-16dab6dd5e98@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 22:19:27 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="2d081e2f7155c28005d4472f67c2f43d"; logging-data="29362"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/4qUN8ogc8fImcHHAHdrWP" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2.0 In-Reply-To: <15428475-9721-4cfd-92a0-16dab6dd5e98@googlegroups.com> Cancel-Lock: sha1:tXmbeca6inG1zYVEwFWvV221PuI= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:35027 On 7/20/2016 2:08 PM, Eric Douglas wrote: > On Wednesday, July 20, 2016 at 2:00:13 PM UTC-4, Eric Sosman wrote: >>> Again I haven't seen any benefit of case sensitive files [...] >> >> Because a case-sensitive file system spends no CPU cycles >> converting letters to a "canonical" case, it is more efficient. > > That depends if you ever need to type your file names. [...] It never occurred to me that a smiley would be required on so outrageous a claim. Oh, well: Because a case-sensitive file system spends no CPU cycles converting letters to a "canonical" case, it is more efficient. ;-) (Sigh.) -- esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid "Don't be afraid of work. Make work afraid of you." -- TLM