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Re: view/edit large files
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: view/edit large files |
Date: |
Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:54:34 +0200 |
> From: Miles Bader <address@hidden>
> Cc: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>, address@hidden,
> address@hidden
> Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:23:58 +0900
>
> "floats" can exactly represent integers if the integer quantity fits
> within the mantissa. For an IEEE double, that's 52 bits, which is
> enough for many uses
Right, but is it enough in this case? I don't know, it all depends on
what kind of time resolution is needed. Also, time values are
frequently used in arithmetic operations that could lose a few low
bits.
> (for an inode number, I'm not sure -- obviously
> it's enough for 32-bit inode numbers, but possibly not some 64-bit
> numbers
Windows NTFS uses 64-bit numbers for the ``file index'' we use as the
replacement for inode.
> ... OTOH, neither is a cons of integers).
That's why we use a cons of 3 numbers.
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- Re: view/edit large files, Miles Bader, 2009/02/06
- Re: view/edit large files, Ted Zlatanov, 2009/02/09
- Re: view/edit large files, Stefan Monnier, 2009/02/09
- Re: view/edit large files, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/02/10
- Re: view/edit large files, Miles Bader, 2009/02/10
- Re: view/edit large files,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: view/edit large files, Miles Bader, 2009/02/10
- Re: view/edit large files, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/02/10
- Re: view/edit large files, Ted Zlatanov, 2009/02/10
- Re: view/edit large files, Stefan Monnier, 2009/02/17
- Re: view/edit large files, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/02/17
- Re: view/edit large files, Miles Bader, 2009/02/17
- Re: view/edit large files, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/02/17
- Re: view/edit large files, Miles Bader, 2009/02/17
- Re: view/edit large files, Miles Bader, 2009/02/17
- Re: view/edit large files, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/02/17