From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: remember(-diary).el Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 22:46:59 +0100 Message-ID: <85sl2wy6r0.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <4743DD30.4010504@gmx.at> <4743EFE7.7080907@gmx.at> <87myt7aejq.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <4745446E.6010009@gmx.at> <87ve7s3clp.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1195855295 23997 80.91.229.12 (23 Nov 2007 22:01:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 22:01:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, joakim@verona.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 23 23:01:41 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ivgah-0001jP-1g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Nov 2007 23:01:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IvgaS-0005E6-Lh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:01:24 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IvgaP-0005Dm-7x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:01:21 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IvgaN-0005D6-MP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:01:20 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IvgaN-0005D2-JT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:01:19 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IvgaN-0000wn-38 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:01:19 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IvgaG-0005rD-27; Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:01:12 -0500 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id B63141CCF7FE; Fri, 23 Nov 2007 22:46:59 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <87ve7s3clp.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (Stephen J. Turnbull's message of "Sat, 24 Nov 2007 05:56:18 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:84013 Archived-At: "Stephen J. Turnbull" writes: > Also, most free software OSes today provide file systems which allow > mounting archives as file systems, as well as more primitive loopback > file systems that emulate an on-disk file system's layout in a file. > > The advantage of implementing at the application level is that > directory access doesn't require a system call. Why not call the system for a task it is optimized thoroughly for? -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum