emacs-devel
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: remember(-diary).el


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: remember(-diary).el
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 22:46:59 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux)

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden> writes:

> Also, most free software OSes today provide file systems which allow
> mounting archives as file systems, as well as more primitive loopback
> file systems that emulate an on-disk file system's layout in a file.
>
> The advantage of implementing at the application level is that
> directory access doesn't require a system call.

Why not call the system for a task it is optimized thoroughly for?

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum




reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]