On 18 Dec 2000, Daniel Pittman wrote:
OTOH, IIRC (and several other conditionals), the inline methods hold
the entire encoded file in memory, then decode, don't they?
Right.
If so, out-of-band methods would cause less memory pressure. That
might show higher performance...
Hm.
Kai
Kai Großjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]
Michael Kifer claims that `scp' might be slower than inline methods
due to the cryptographic overhead involved while transferring the
file. (This is distinct from the startup overhead; it refers to what
happens after startup: encryption and
The node `Connection types' says:
/
|The performance of the external transfer methods is generally better
| than that of the inline methods. This is caused by the need to encode
| and decode the data when transferring inline.
|
|The one exception to this rule are the `scp' based
