Philip Martin wrote: > The argument appears to be that we cannot design a perfect stream > library and so we should write code using files instead.
No, that's not it at all. > I'd prefer to > accept limitations in our stream design and write a stream library that > helps write the rest of our code. I don't believe we have to design a > 'perfect' stream library. Agreed. See the IRC conversation going on right now: http://colabti.org/irclogger/irclogger_log/svn-dev?date=2015-05-28#l63 Bert is pointing out that we shouldn't be trying to make a full flush to hardware after writing each file, as that's unreasonably slow and unnecessary. So we need to re-think the approach here. - Julian