Hello Ric;
Interesting numbers. My next questions would be: how modern are the
drives, and how much RAM is on the machine? Also, how long did the OP's
'slow' process take? Did an actual copy occur? I could see *nix
systems doing some inode magic.
Sherlock, Ric wrote:
---Randy MacDonald wrote:
By copy, I don not mean duplicating a reference. I mean having two
identical sets of bytes where there was one before. What the
OP seemed
to be talking about was a filter of some sort.
I based my estimate on 134MB being a 2 hour mp3, or a
6-minute video. I
just thought the data transfer speed of a hard drive would work out to
about a minute, or 4MB/sec, since both to and from storage are what we
are talking about here. (note to self: Google 'hard drive
throughput'
for more info)
The following seems to suggest that 1 minute would be excessive?
6!:2 '(134125010$''abcdefg'') fwrite jpath ''~temp/testsz.txt'''
6.27771190193
6!:2 '(jpath ''~temp/testsz2.txt'') fcopynew jpath ''~temp/testsz.txt'''
4.60973992505
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