Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: file as a directory | From | Peter Foldiak <> | Date | 16 Dec 2004 19:01:04 +0000 |
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On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 18:48, 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.
But if the glued "file" is a stream (or pipe?) you can't do everything with it (e.g. seek() ) that you could do with a proper file, right? You may want to do everything with it that you can do with a proper file.
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