Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 Dec 2004 10:48:16 -0800 | From | Hans Reiser <> | Subject | Re: file as a directory |
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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.
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