[Vm-dev] [squeak-dev] opening a write-only file

[David T. Lewis]

On Fri, Jun 06, 2014 at 04:53:24PM -0700, tim Rowledge wrote:
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> On 06-06-2014, at 11:25 AM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > IMO, some time we should replace the FilePlugin.  The directory interface sucks.   Buffering sucks.  We should go the VW route of having proper buffered files above the raw system calls (ReadFile & WriteFile in win32/64, read & write in unix et al).
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> Oh please. Almost everything about the current, ancient, horrible filesystem code is ancient and horrible. I?ts at least a decade past time it was replaced.
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Should I bring this old chestnut back to life?

  http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/2274

I think it handles the directory aspects of the problem, at least for posix
file systems. The performance claims were legitimate at the time, although
I don't know what the numbers would look like today.

Dave