On 6/13/17, Mattias Andrée <maand...@kth.se> wrote: > On Linux, the performance of cat(1) can be doubled > when cat(1):ing from one pipe to another, by compiling > with -DBUFSIZ=(1<<16) (the default pipe capacity). > This is close to optimial for a read(3)/write(3) > implementation.
Agreed. On my sbase branch, I bumped it up to 8192 (from 1024 on musl) and noticed significant performance improvements. Speaking of a read(3)/write(3) implementation, I should ping my IO improvement patch series thread...
