Re: file as a directory

[Hans Reiser]

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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