yes. it fixed the problem. a patch should be made to warn the user, when
running under osx. should buffered i/o cause such huge slowdowns, or is the
problem a bottleneck in the program itself.

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> when working on fully functional hard drives, under linux it performs full
> i/o speed. when compiled under osx with the default compile flags, it is
> magnitude times slower, sometimes crawling to Kb/s. the problem persists if
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> I have tried it on 10.5, 10.6, 10.7 and 10.8. the same issue.
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> Try using /dev/rdiskX as source instead of /dev/diskX. Does that speed
> things up?
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> Greetings,
> Florian
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> Am 12.12.2012 um 16:14 schrieb Garegin Asatryan:
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> > when working on fully functional hard drives, under linux it performs
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