Re: The illusion of simplicity and low cost in data design and computing

Michael Kay <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.text.xml.devel
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> Put information about a file inside or outside the file?
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Inside when viewed at one layer, outside when viewed at a different layer.

Or to put it another way, you don't need to know. You don't care whether the bits you get to see are contiguous on disk or not.

Michael Kay
Saxonica
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