Am 30.08.2011, 20:48 Uhr, schrieb Andrei Alexandrescu
<[email protected]>:
On 8/30/11 1:10 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
std.file.copy is synchronous. Would the suggestion then be to change it
to be
asynchronous or to create a second function (e.g. copyAsync) which does
an
asynchrous copy?
I think std.file.copy should do whatever the heck is best to copy a
file. As such, it should be transparently asynchronous. It would be
great if such a task caught your fancy - and don't forget to test speed
under a few circumstances.
Andrei
I expect the performance to degrade if you copy asynchronously on a single
HDD, since more seeking is involved. If that is true, then only an
identification of the source and destination media through operating
system APIs can yield optimal performance.
