Re: Help with NSData dataWithContentsOfURL
Re: Help with NSData dataWithContentsOfURL
- Subject: Re: Help with NSData dataWithContentsOfURL
- From: Graham Cox <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 16:27:55 +1100
On 04/02/2010, at 4:21 PM, Michael Ash wrote:
> Why is everybody so worried about loading an excessive amount of data
> if it's a directory, but not if it's a file? HFS+ is capable of
> holding files over a billion gigabytes long, which you're going to
> have a certain amount of trouble squeezing into RAM. (Or onto any kind
> of storage, for that matter.)
>
> If you know that your data will fit into RAM, then you can read it all
> at once. If you're not certain, then you must read it in pieces.
> Whether the data in question is a single file or a directory of files
> doesn't influence this decision at all.
True, but I guess that with a single file you can find out its size ahead of time easily, whereas with a directory it's quite a bit more involved to find out the size of it.
--Graham
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