Re: APR question

On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 03:59:15PM -0500, Karl Fogel wrote:
> The latter. Sure I can write a read/write loop, but I would think
> that some systems might provide faster ways to do it (i.e., using
> fancy block sizes during the copy that make everything happen
> lightning quick... or is that just wishful thinking, and most Unix
> cp's are just a standard read/write loop anyway?)

Someone on the linux-kernel list reimplemented cp using sendfile() and
got a 40% performance boost when everything was cached.
Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:08 2006