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Gonix – Unix tools written in Go

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Re: Gonix – Unix tools written in Go

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What happens when you tail a 32 gig file?

From a glance at the code [0], it looks like it will read it all into memory first.

A better way to do this would be to utilize the io.Reader interface.

[0] https://github.com/polegone/gonix/blob/0b65cd4fb9c6c44357d0a...

Re: Gonix – Unix tools written in Go

#7
Why do Go programmers always want to redo everything? It's rare to see something actually new written in Go, proving that Go can do everything C can (except make shared libraries and produce small binary sizes) but not that it's actually better.
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