Well, thinking back to 1995, it appeared that they were exactly that. What Is the payload full of now, icons and previews or what?
Sent from my iPod On Apr 15, 2012, at 1:10 PM, Scott Ribe <scott_r...@elevated-dev.com> wrote: > On Apr 15, 2012, at 11:05 AM, Alex Zavatone wrote: > >> Nope. I'm thinking back to 1995 when an alias was about 2K. >> >> But I don't want to clog the list up with this. It just seems strange that >> an alias now has to be so large a set of data structures. >> >> 668KB? Even if we are in the days of TB hard drives, that just seems >> insane. > > It does seem large. But still, aliases were never used for saving space. How > exactly could they have been? An alias is not and never was a substitute for > a copy. It has always been a (relatively) robust & persistent reference, > which is not in any way a substitute for a copy. > > -- > Scott Ribe > scott_r...@elevated-dev.com > http://www.elevated-dev.com/ > (303) 722-0567 voice > > > > _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
