Re: Are We Back to the "Wars" Now ?

On Sat, 23 Nov 2024 11:12:50 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

*Should* is an interesting word ...

Here I think it is being used to backpedal from the poster’s original
claim that pipes are somehow unsuited to passing around large quantities
of data, while trying to somehow save face.

Well yes, but we have gigabytes of RAM these days.

That’s irrelevant. Pipes originated on the earliest Unix machine, which
was a PDP-11 with only a 64kiB address space. They work great for pumping
around gigabytes of data, but you don’t need gigabyte-sized memory buffers
to do that.