Exactly, John

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On Jan 21, 2012, at 1:27 PM, John Gilmore <[email protected]> wrote:

> It may perhaps be time to restate the obvious.
> 
> LINKLST has come to be  used in situations remote from its original
> narrow focus, which was to improve real and virtual program-fetch
> performance from certain system datasets.
> 
> It does this well, but it was never intended that volatile program
> libraries---those some of the members of which are frequently
> replaced---be included in it.
> 
> The natural, appropriate update time for LINKLST is IPL time,  Some
> sysprogs in some shops may well be able to cheat on this in some
> situations; but the competence and judg[e]ment required to do so are
> personal; and these cheats should not be institutionalized; in
> particular, their use should never be delegated to people of 'junior
> understanding'.  They should probably not even be talked about much.
> 
> So far as I can judge from what has been posted here, the real problem
> is not an arcane, PDSE-related one.  It is that some libraries that do
> not belong there have made their way into LINKLST.
> 
> John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA
> 
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> John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA
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