Re: Data Storage Issue (Basic Issue)

Lew wrote:
> Eric Sosman wrote:
>>     No.  "Suggestive," perhaps, or even "cautionary."  But for
>> my own part I wouldn't confer "very indicative" on a lab result
>> that cannot be reproduced by an independent experimenter.  A
>> citation of a full re****t or published paper or something of that
>> nature might change my mind, but at the moment ... no.
> 
> OK, that's fine.  It was something that convinced me that it worked in 
> that case because I could interact with people who conducted the test.  
> You choose to reject the anecdote because I have no credibility with
you.

     No, no, no, Lew: Your credibility is just fine (or my
credulity; take it either way).  All I'm saying is that the
information you've presented is insufficient to sup****t the
inference Tom Anderson drew from it ("kind of damning for
filesystems"), and that he should consider being a little
less hasty in drawing sweeping conclusions from sketchy and
incomplete re****ts.

     If someone told you there was a "five-to-one difference"
between ArrayList and plain array, would you conclude that this
was "kind of damning" for Collections?  Of course not.  I'm
urging Tom not to make the analogous error.

-- 
Eric Sosman
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