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From: fair@dual.UUCP (Erik E. Fair)
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Subject: Re: why are object libraries stored in archive files?
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Date: Fri, 13-Apr-84 03:32:23 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 13 03:32:23 1984
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Well, for one thing there's less filesystem overhead. It is expensive under
the Bell Filesystem to successively open, read and close lots of files.

	Erik E. Fair	ucbvax!fair	fair@ucb-arpa.ARPA

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