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Re: cp vs copy performance over local network
- From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 16:10:27 -0400
- Subject: Re: cp vs copy performance over local network
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On 9/25/2013 3:45 PM, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote:
There's overhead to handle POSIX permissions, etc.
For one file, the effects of copying the meta-data should be negligible.
You're right. I didn't really look at the example (1 file) and the timing
difference (~10 sec). I was assuming multiple files. strace output still
might provide some insight. Or perhaps as Andrey suggests, the x86_64
version might make up the difference.
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