Re: file as a directory

[David Masover]

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Hans Reiser wrote:
| 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
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| Only for small files where the per file overhead of a read is significant.

That's potentially a common problem, and "cat *" is an overly-simplified
example.  Either you force the "plugin" to say whether it wants to be
cached or not, or you cache everything, because there are going to be
plugins like "tar -xjp" for which caching is a HUGE increase.
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