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Hans Reiser wrote: | David Masover wrote: | |> |> |> Speaking of which, how much speed is lost by starting up a process? |> |> The idea of caching is that running |> |> cat *; cat *; cat *; cat *; cat * |> |> is probably slower than |> |> cat * > baz; cat baz; cat baz; cat baz; cat baz; cat baz | | | Only for small files where the per file overhead of a read is significant.
That's potentially a common problem, and "cat *" is an overly-simplified example. Either you force the "plugin" to say whether it wants to be cached or not, or you cache everything, because there are going to be plugins like "tar -xjp" for which caching is a HUGE increase. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
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