The REALLY bad thing about Python lists ..

[Grant Griffin]

Tamer Fahmy wrote:
> 
> Grant Griffin wrote:
> > But there is a very real cost here.  You have to decompress the whole
> > thing to extract a single component.  The compression saving gained by
> > the tar approach is negligible in the scale of the capabilities of
> > modern computers.
> Hmm not really. One can say:
> tar xvzf archive.tar.gz directoryInTar/fileInTar.dat
> Here we go. Just one file I got. No need to decompress it in an extra
> cycle.
> 
> > also,-don't-be-rude-to-any-of-those-other-people-in-the-song--or
> >   even-us-windows-users-<wink>-ly y'rs,
> Granted! Your are so right with that! ;) But sometimes its very hard not
> to be rude to a windows user! hehehe
> 
> Never-be-rude-to-anybody-ly y'rs,
>   Tamer.

<hehe>  Well, those are two very good reasons a very few of us Windows
users feel compelled to fight FUD with FUD. ;-)

i've-noticed-that-the-justice-department-hasn't-claimed-that
   -microsoft-has-a-monopoly-on-fud-<wink>-ly y'rs,

=g2
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