Proper shebang for python3
MRAB
python at mrabarnett.plus.com
Thu Jul 25 09:28:52 EDT 2019
On 2019-07-25 03:57, Dan Sommers wrote:
> On 7/24/19 10:24 PM, Michael Torrie wrote:
>
> > ... In more recent times, binaries that are mostly applicable to the
> > super user go there. I don't see why you would want to merge those.
> > A normal user rarely has need of much in /sbin. Already /bin has way
> > too much stuff in it (although I don't see any other way to
> > practically do it without ridiculous PATHs searching all over the
> > disk).
>
> On ancient file systems (SysV?), ISTR something like 1400 files in a
> directory being some sort of limit, or perhaps a major performance
> issue. Separate directories (including /usr/X11/bin) mitigated that,
> too.
>
[snip]
At one time I used an MS-DOS application suite whose database component
stored predefined queries in individual files. There were _many_
predefined queries, so _many_ small files.
This took up a lot of disk space, and running a predefined query was
slow because of the need to search for the file (the FAT layout used a
linked list).
I put all of the predefined queries into a single file and called an
external program to look up the query on demand, copy it into a file,
and then performed the query.
That saved a _lot_ of disk space, and, despite the overhead of calling
an external program, was _much_ faster!
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