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Re: [Monotone-devel] responses to some IRC discussion of 'automate'
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Nathaniel Smith |
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Re: [Monotone-devel] responses to some IRC discussion of 'automate' |
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Sun, 6 Aug 2006 15:12:10 -0700 |
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On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 12:00:58AM +0200, Thomas Moschny wrote:
> On Sunday 06 August 2006 22:59 wrote Nathaniel Smith:
> > <CIA-2> 2006-08-06 Thomas Moschny <address@hidden>
> > <CIA-2> Make the block size for automate stdio configurable:
> >
> > Why should automate stdio block size be configurable?
>
> Because it is easier to make some measurements (you asked for some benchmarks
> when this came up last time) this way than to recompile x-times for different
> values of the constant ;-)
Sure. (Though for simple measurement it often suffices to use a quick
getenv() type call, and commit it on a branch if you commit it at
all.)
> Second, some people were ancient about changing this value.
Not sure what you mean here.
> And last, the best value might be dependant on the architecture, and/or
> change
> over time.
Probably that's our job to adjust the default, then -- in practice I
can't imagine that the API's users can or will track this anywhere
near as well as we can.
-- Nathaniel
--
In mathematics, it's not enough to read the words
you have to hear the music
- [Monotone-devel] responses to some IRC discussion of 'automate', Nathaniel Smith, 2006/08/06
- Re: [Monotone-devel] responses to some IRC discussion of 'automate', Thomas Keller, 2006/08/06
- Re: [Monotone-devel] responses to some IRC discussion of 'automate', Nathaniel Smith, 2006/08/06
- Re: [Monotone-devel] responses to some IRC discussion of 'automate', Thomas Keller, 2006/08/07
- [Monotone-devel] Re: responses to some IRC discussion of 'automate', Bruce Stephens, 2006/08/07
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: responses to some IRC discussion of 'automate', Thomas Keller, 2006/08/07
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: responses to some IRC discussion of 'automate', Timothy Brownawell, 2006/08/07