Vitaliy wrote:

> It was a rhetoric question. 

Rhetoric is a dangerous weapon. It can kill (and arguably has caused
more deaths than most technological weapons systems).

> We were talking about small systems, so what you said above did not
> make sense in the context. 

Let me quote here my words: "This is actually not only a small-system
concern. If you're dealing with lots of data, like gigabytes, each layer
of buffering costs a lot, even on today's typical server machines."

I thought that "not only small-system concern", "lots of data, like
gigabytes", "typical server machines" set the correct context.

But as I said (and Olin before), the same principle applies to small
systems. It's independent of the absolute size of the system, and
related to the relative size of the amount of data we're dealing with
and the available resources.

Gerhard
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