On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Greg Smith wrote:
The problem I was pointing out is that if chunk#2 moved foward a few bytes before it started reading in search of a newline, how will chunk#1 know that it's supposed to read up to that further point? You have to stop #1 from reading further when it catches up with where #2 started. Since the start of #2 is fuzzy until some reading is done, what you're describing will need #2 to send some feedback to #1 after they've both started, and that sounds bad to me.
It doesn't have to be fuzzy at all. Both threads will presumably be able to use the same algorithm to work out where the boundary is, therefore they'll get the same result. No need to pass back information.
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