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

[Marc Donner via TUHS]

Is that 10MB per record, Andrew?

:-)
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On Fri, Jan 9, 2026 at 12:20 PM andrew--- via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> wrote:

> 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:
> >
> >> 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
>
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