On 04/02/2010, at 4:21 PM, Michael Ash wrote: > Why is everybody so worried about loading an excessive amount of data > if it's a directory, but not if it's a file? HFS+ is capable of > holding files over a billion gigabytes long, which you're going to > have a certain amount of trouble squeezing into RAM. (Or onto any kind > of storage, for that matter.) > > If you know that your data will fit into RAM, then you can read it all > at once. If you're not certain, then you must read it in pieces. > Whether the data in question is a single file or a directory of files > doesn't influence this decision at all.
True, but I guess that with a single file you can find out its size ahead of time easily, whereas with a directory it's quite a bit more involved to find out the size of it. --Graham _______________________________________________ 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: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
