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Date:      Sun, 24 Jan 1999 16:43:12 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Mikhail Teterin <mi@kot.ne.mediaone.net>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sysctl oids (was: Re: kvm question) 
Message-ID:  <199901250043.QAA06042@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 24 Jan 1999 17:44:55 EST." <199901242244.RAA04500@kot.ne.mediaone.net> 

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> 
> Pardon my intrusion, but I strongly dislike the very thought about
> my computer looking-up the same string more then once or twice. If it
> counts -- I'd take a number over a string anytime anywhere other
> then in a documentation.

Since sysctl isn't a performance interface, this isn't really an issue.

OTOH, you should consider going back to single-character directory 
names, since that's much more significant.

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