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From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: file as a directory
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 10:48:16 -0800
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To: David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com>
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David Masover wrote:

>
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> Speaking of which, how much speed is lost by starting up a process?
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> The idea of caching is that running
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> cat *; cat *; cat *; cat *; cat *
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> is probably slower than
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> 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.