On 09/07/12 20:38, David Prager Branner wrote: > No, not CPU intensive, but I imagine it has some cost for a large backup, > since > the program must wait until printing each line is finished before proceeding, > no?
I just tried with a tree of 55000 files, and running with -v added 0.3 seconds. So yes, it does have *some* cost, but only about 6 microseconds per file... -- Colin Percival Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid
