[145] in Athena User Interface
Re: Virtual lockers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Thu Jun 8 02:29:20 2000
To: Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>
Cc: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>, Brad Thompson <yak@MIT.EDU>,
aui@MIT.EDU
From: tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Date: 08 Jun 2000 02:29:16 -0400
In-Reply-To: Richard Tibbetts's message of "Thu, 08 Jun 2000 00:51:51 -0400"
Message-ID: <u1hwvk08z43.fsf@pusey.mit.edu>
Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU> writes:
> I think that you overestimate the "overhead" of attaching a locker. It
> is simply the creation of a symlink, not particularly hosing.
It's a little more than that, but I'm not sure how it would interact
with the scale under contemplation. My suggestion would be to
implement it with separate lockers, and only consider the performance
hack if that turns out to be too slow.
