On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 04:52:32PM -0700, tim Rowledge wrote:
> Dave Lewis did a fair old bit of work to write the DirectoryPlugin
> (
http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/2274) and it might make a good
> start for improving the steaming pile of nastiness currently used for
> file accessing. Have any of you looked at it? Any opinions on it - or
> indeed on any of the issues?
DirectoryPlugin is a performance optimization based on the existing
Squeak model of directories and files. It will make the current steaming
pile go faster, but it will not smell any better.
If I were to contribute anything to this discussion, I'd prefer that
you look at IOHandle (
http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/996). It will
not help at all with performance, but it does attempt to represent a
conceptual difference between low level IO channels and the higher
level Squeak constructs such as streams, files, and sockets.
Craig's Flow framework also addresses this, but it's a bigger step
to take for the installed base.
Dave
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