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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Whaddaya think?
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2024 08:06:40 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sun, 16 Jun 2024 15:52:16 -0000 (UTC), Lew Pitcher wrote:

> (BTW, the 'blind-spot' I mentioned is that we often forget that we /can/
> use temporary files to store intermediary results. Sometimes we can
> manipulate a temporary file easier than we can manipulate malloc()ed (or
> other) storage. )

Or we could use an “I/O stream”, basically a temporary file in RAM.