Case sensitive file names

[Moderator, John Quarterman]

From: rbj at icst-cmr.arpa (Jim Cottrell)
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 86 16:57:43 EDT

> Having done a lot of case insensitive work, i've always felt that the
> UNIX case sensitivity was from laziness.  If i were to be charitable,
> i might go so far as to call it a shortcut.

I prefer to call it optimization. Case insensitivity must be enforced.
By my count, that's at least two instructions per character, plus loop
control (unless you have something like VAX's `move translated characters').
That ought to negate any speedup from hashing or name translation caching.

What is lazy is people refusing to learn the difference.

[ See previous comments about argument by character assassination.  -mod ]

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