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| From | "MikeP" <mp011011@some.org> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c++ |
| Subject | Re: Life is a stream? |
| Date | 2011-06-01 03:22 -0500 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <is53i3$d7m$2@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <is1n3n$397$1@dont-email.me> <9MqdnXCIw-R92XjQnZ2dnUVZ7vadnZ2d@eclipse.net.uk> |
Andy Champ wrote: > On 31/05/2011 04:25, MikeP wrote: >> Programmers are enamoured with streams of bytes. Is that abstraction >> (i.e., generality) too rigidly modeled? I say, all IO (I/O?) is not >> alike, so why model it as if it is. What say you (y'all)? >> >> Keywords and key phrases (why is "keyword" a compound word and "key >> phrase" two words?): stream of bytes, record IO, formatted IO, ASCII >> unit/record/group separator, compromise, designed for all cases but >> good for none (nothing),... other. >> >> > > Having read a few comments and rummaged in the old memory... > > Some mainframe systems have record based file systems, where the OS is > responsible for mapping the records onto the disc sectors. There's no > stream of bytes involved - a read will give you a record (which > admittedly is usually made of bytes!) direct from a sector, and there > is no byte-wide stream involved at all. This of course has > advantages if your data is wider than bytes, and the system bus is > too - there's never a need to perform the byte alignment. > It is just data though, Hmm?
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Life is a stream? "MikeP" <mp011011@some.org> - 2011-05-30 22:25 -0500
Re: Life is a stream? BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-05-30 23:55 -0700
Re: Life is a stream? Michael Doubez <michael.doubez@free.fr> - 2011-05-31 02:50 -0700
Re: Life is a stream? "MikeP" <mp011011@some.org> - 2011-06-01 03:19 -0500
Re: Life is a stream? "MikeP" <mp011011@some.org> - 2011-06-06 12:51 -0500
Re: Life is a stream? Adam Skutt <askutt@gmail.com> - 2011-05-31 09:29 -0700
Re: Life is a stream? "MikeP" <mp011011@some.org> - 2011-06-06 12:54 -0500
Re: Life is a stream? Andy Champ <no.way@nospam.invalid> - 2011-05-31 20:43 +0100
Re: Life is a stream? "MikeP" <mp011011@some.org> - 2011-06-01 03:22 -0500
Re: Life is a stream? Andy Champ <no.way@nospam.invalid> - 2011-06-01 21:53 +0100
Re: Life is a stream? "MikeP" <mp011011@some.org> - 2011-06-06 12:56 -0500
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