@icing cp is slow in general in most cases. with tar, file accesses are buffered, inodes are preloaded, etc. somewhat related: https://ariadne.space/2022/07/17/how-efficient-can-cat1-be/
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@icing cp is slow in general in most cases. with tar, file accesses are buffered, inodes are preloaded, etc. somewhat related: https://ariadne.space/2022/07/17/how-efficient-can-cat1-be/ 2 comments
@ariadne The other advantage of tar: it uses 2 cores without interference into each other memory caches. |
@ariadne Nice article! Never used splice before - it shows my age.😌