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Re:Who's at the Helm? by orf on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @05:25PM (#25652047)
It also means every layer has to be kept indefinitely, forever. Tags at the very least are pointers that stop indefinite and exponential storage growth.
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Re:Who's at the Helm? by jacques_chester on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @05:31PM (#25652124)
Tags don't help exponential growth, because you cannot reliably reason from a tag-only reference back to the exact assets it represents. That's feasible with fully-digested references.
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