[clug] Why isn't Java popular on the Linux Desktop?

[Peter Barker]

On Tue, 14 Jul 2009, Francis James Whittle wrote:

> So please explain to me a scheme for writing to or reading from files
> that does not involved streaming?  Files are bytes on disk until you
> have to do something to them, then they're bytes being streamed about
> the place.

I believe mmap'd files would count as an example of treating a file as 
something other than a stream of bytes.

Yours,
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