[TUHS] A Tale of Two Greps (Andrew Hume)

[andrew--- via TUHS]

the fio stuff has been reimplemented many times over.
the marginal improvement it made was mostly in how the normal API was tweaked.

what struck me in rereading the paper was a refererral to large files beng greater than 10MB.
hahahahahaha


> On Jan 5, 2026, at 11:51 PM, Arnold Robbins via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> wrote:
> 
> Thalia Archibald via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> wrote:
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>> On Jan 5, 2026, at 09:15, Dan Cross wrote:
>>> Does anyone have a copy of the paper mentioned in the subject?
>> 
>> 
>> Wiley has the authoritative online copy (accessible via Sci-Hub)
>>    https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/spe.4380181105
>> and Erica Fischer uploaded a scan to the Internet Archive
>>    https://archive.org/details/tale-of-two-greps
>> 
>> Thalia
>> 
> 
> Thanks, that was an interesting read.
> 
> Doug / Andrew -- is the fio library mentioned in the paper around
> anywhere? Or did it evolve into Plan 9's Bio library?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Arnold