[plt-scheme] Rebuilding Large Files from Small Pieces

From: Noel Welsh (noelwelsh at gmail.com)
Date: Tue Feb 23 05:29:41 EST 2010

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 7:51 AM, Synx <plt at synx.us.to> wrote:
> I suspect leaving the
> files open would be worse for both memory and performance, but I can't
> quite justify why it is incorrect to do so.

If you leave the files open you'll eventually run out of file handles,
which will probably crash your program.

N.


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