From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,55a8252137b5ef97 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!proxad.net!213.200.89.82.MISMATCH!tiscali!newsfeed1.ip.tiscali.net!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!pe2.news.blueyonder.co.uk!blueyonder!peer-uk.news.demon.net!kibo.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!not-for-mail From: Simon Wright Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Efficiently setting up large quantities of constant data Date: 19 Dec 2004 14:34:10 +0000 Organization: Pushface Sender: simon@smaug.pushface.org Message-ID: References: <4LGruwf2lqzz@eisner.encompasserve.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: pogner.demon.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1103466870 26125 62.49.19.209 (19 Dec 2004 14:34:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 14:34:30 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:7071 Date: 2004-12-19T14:34:10+00:00 List-Id: "Dr. Adrian Wrigley" writes: > On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 15:52:28 -0600, Larry Kilgallen wrote: > > But since he did not say the purpose of putting it in the > > application was for speed, I think we have to presume it was for > > religious reasons. > > It seems like a good idea in some circumstances: Another one might be a target which, for whatever reason, doesn't have an easily-accessible filesystem .. in our case that would be VxWorks where someone else has decided that there can be no more than 8 files on the flash filesystem, and there is no disk-based FS. -- Simon Wright 100% Ada, no bugs.