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		flomo on April 12, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: DwarFS – Deduplicating Warp-Speed Advanced Read-On... Yeah, the original rationale is kinda perversely interesting: > my main use case and major motivation was that I had several hundred different versions of Perl okay... The question is if you want to trust a github filesystem or just spend the $dough to deal with it.

smueller1234 on April 12, 2024 [–]

It's not an idle use case by the way. mhx wrote and maintains a library that provides important backwards compatibility for native (typically C based) extensions for Perl across decades of language releases.

flomo on April 13, 2024 | [–]

No real doubt here this guy isn't 100% serious, so thanks for the explanation.

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