On May 18, 2010, at 3:04 PM, René v Amerongen wrote: > Maybe just an imagination from me, but it looks slow all that moving of > results to the next task.
But that’s exactly what the shell does! The “|” operator spawns a process for each side and hooks the output of the first to the input of the second. There’s not really any copying going on — pipes are pretty fundamental to the way the Unix kernel works and are highly optimized. —Jens_______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
