Re: Data Storage Issue (Basic Issue)
Lew wrote:
Eric Sosman wrote:
No. "Suggestive," perhaps, or even "cautionary." But for
my own part I wouldn't confer "very indicative" on a lab result
that cannot be reproduced by an independent experimenter. A
citation of a full report or published paper or something of that
nature might change my mind, but at the moment ... no.
OK, that's fine. It was something that convinced me that it worked in
that case because I could interact with people who conducted the test.
You choose to reject the anecdote because I have no credibility with you.
No, no, no, Lew: Your credibility is just fine (or my
credulity; take it either way). All I'm saying is that the
information you've presented is insufficient to support the
inference Tom Anderson drew from it ("kind of damning for
filesystems"), and that he should consider being a little
less hasty in drawing sweeping conclusions from sketchy and
incomplete reports.
If someone told you there was a "five-to-one difference"
between ArrayList and plain array, would you conclude that this
was "kind of damning" for Collections? Of course not. I'm
urging Tom not to make the analogous error.
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Eric Sosman
esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid