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

On 11/23/24 4:25 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

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.

   Check - I said there were OTHER, reasonably good, ways
   to pass lots of data between parents/children. Others
   here said they've used ordinary disk files instead of
   pipes for various reasons.
   As for my face ... it never was very handsome, no
   saving it now ...  :-)

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.

   It all has to be SOMEWHERE ... if not in RAM then
   on a mass storage device.
   Of course 'gigabytes' ALL AT ONCE -vs- "a little
   at a time, added up" are entirely different things.