Timeline for How to write repeated free-form strings to a file, as fast as 'dd'?
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| Apr 18, 2011 at 9:59 | comment | added | Peter.O | I've included some test times in my answer (so that all times relate to the same hardware). | |
| Apr 17, 2011 at 7:43 | history | edited | Mat | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 583 characters in body |
| Apr 16, 2011 at 19:48 | comment | added | Peter.O | Interesting and useful.. As the string length reduces, the time increases ..On my box your exact command took real/user/sys **0m4.565s**/0m0.804s/0m0.904s ..with a string "x\n", it took r/u/s **0m30.227s**/0m29.202s/0m0.880s... but that's still certainly faster than printf--sed ... The 384 byte string version is about the same speed as dd on my system too...(it's funny how things vary... I actually got a slower dd speed this time... | |
| Apr 16, 2011 at 17:49 | history | answered | Mat | CC BY-SA 3.0 |