Peter da Silva wrote:
[snip]
An unlimited command line is impossible, and hideously inefficient.
Eventually you'll run out of VM building the command line, no matter how
much VM you have. You have to get away from the whole concept of the
command line to resolve that problem.
If something is impossible, seems like it would be pretty efficient
too ("can't be done" doesn't take very long to print to the output
buffer).
Although, I guess if the code tried and tried and tried and only
realized somewhere near the Heat Death of the Universe that the task
was impossible, many would call that hideously inefficient. I mean
just think of all the other things you could have computed during that
time.
So, I guess I'll have to grant you your point.
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