[Swift-devel] Use case and examples needed to avoid large directories

[Mihael Hategan]

On Sat, 2007-09-29 at 12:14 -0500, Michael Wilde wrote:
> - cmd lines to big for linux
> 

Maybe we can somehow mark applications that are associative in one of
its vector parameters.

combine "-type" "x" "-files" @associative(@f) @result(@out);

This would mean that Swift has the liberty of, say for f = 0...1000, to
break things into:

combine -type x -files 0...500 tmp1
combine -type x -files 501...1000 tmp2
combine -type x -files tmp1 tmp2 out

Or something like that.

> 
> - Mike
> 
> On 9/29/07 3:53 AM, Ben Clifford wrote:
> > On Fri, 28 Sep 2007, Mihael Hategan wrote:
> > 
> >> Getting mappers to do this in the first place is another matter, which
> >> eludes me at the moment.
> > 
> > Likely a custom mapper if you want a whole tree mapped into a structure. 
> > Mapping pieces of any one (sub)directory should be possible, at least in 
> > basic form, with the present mappers.
> > 
> > Mapping a whole tree would not be hugely different from the simple_mapper 
> > (although it would be some modification). But I'd be interested on working 
> > with Andrew to get something done there that isn't a hack.
> > 
>