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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: PIPE:... should it buffer at all?  Of course it should
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Date: Fri, 4-Sep-87 23:17:02 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep  4 23:17:02 1987
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> 	So in general, if the source can jam data out faster then the 
> destination can read it, you want buffered pipes so the destination can run
> full speed.

I quite agree. However, there's another use for pipes. While they can save a
hell of a lot of one scarce resource (wallclock time), they do it at the
expense of another one (memory). My suggestion was a way to use pipes
to save a resource that is (for me, anyway) even more scarce.
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