The REALLY bad thing about Python lists ..
Tamer Fahmy
tamer at tammura.at
Tue May 23 19:10:36 EDT 2000
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.
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