Re: [9fans] Are there disadvantages to walk?

2019-04-02 Thread Ethan Gardener
On Mon, Apr 1, 2019, at 8:53 PM, Brian L. Stuart wrote: > > The only complaint I've had about walk was the expectation > in the protocol that servers produce the list of Qids all > the way down. That got in the way when experimenting > with a server that used a hash table of full path names >

Re: [9fans] Are there disadvantages to walk?

2019-04-01 Thread Brian L. Stuart
On Mon, 4/1/19, Ethan Gardener wrote: > I remember hearing of some disadvantage to > walking directories, but can't remember what it was.  > Could someone remind me, please?  Perhaps there was > more than one, of course.  Perhaps a performance trick > couldn't be employed? The only complaint

Re: [9fans] Are there disadvantages to walk?

2019-04-01 Thread Ethan Gardener
On Mon, Apr 1, 2019, at 5:27 PM, hiro wrote: > perhaps you mean that if you bind a lot you have to walk a lot :) If that's the only issue, I'll be happy. :)

Re: [9fans] Are there disadvantages to walk?

2019-04-01 Thread hiro
perhaps you mean that if you bind a lot you have to walk a lot :)

[9fans] Are there disadvantages to walk?

2019-04-01 Thread Ethan Gardener
I remember hearing of some disadvantage to walking directories, but can't remember what it was. Could someone remind me, please? Perhaps there was more than one, of course. Perhaps a performance trick couldn't be employed?