Re: Maildir and procmail and safecat

[Russ Allbery]

Len Budney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Yes, but 5-6 orders of magnitude less expensive than physical writes. If
> I had incurred, but discounted, physical latencies, I would be a
> jackass. Instead I simply made a decision you don't care for, which I
> would reverse in the face of actual performance data.

W. Richard Stevens did that benchmark in _Advanced Unix Programming_ quite
a while back; as I recall, the difference between single-character writes
and buffered writes in his data was an order of magnitude or two.

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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED])         <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>