Re: PdataStreamIterator bug?

On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 10:41 -0300, Sidnei da Silva wrote:
> On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 03:17:35PM +0200, Roché Compaan wrote:
> | I've looked at the latest version and I don't quite understand the
> | rationale behind the implementation. Why is it necessary to read the
> | whole file into a temporary file, if it can be streamed by iterating
> | over the Pdata chain. This will keep memory consumption low, and will be
> | much more responsive from the clients point of view - waiting for N
> | gigabyte to be written to a tempfile first can take a while.
> 
> That's what it did before. That broke ExternalEditor. The current
> version works with ExternalEditor and keeps the memory low.

I can't see how it can make any difference. What does it matter where
you stream the file from? At the moment you're streaming it from a
tempfile, how can streaming it from a chain of Pdata objects break
ExternalEditor?

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Roché Compaan
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