Very true. But you also need to look at what you're doing. A spider that indexes or coallates pages across several sites might need to slurp up a large number of pages -- which even at a few kilobytes a piece would be costly on system resources.
Ironically this is the one time I could see slurping as not working too. Has anyone hit the limit for open file descriptors? I know it is OS dependent and pretty damn high, but on a nice enough system with nice enough app I suspect you could hit it. At that point you would have to slurp or close a filehandle...
Dan always comes up with the good discussion topics ;-)...
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