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From: Ryan Cumming <bodnar42@phalynx.dhs.org>
To: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Subject: Re: Patch and Performance of larger pipes
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 16:05:11 -0700
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On October 18, 2001 11:07, Manfred Spraul wrote:
> Could you test the attached singlecopy patches?
>
> with bw_pipe,
> * on UP, up to +100%.

Awesome! Although any improvement improvement in efficiency is a good thing, 
I am curious as to what uses pipes besides gcc -pipe. UNIX domain sockets 
(for local X11, for instance) aren't implemented as pipes, are they? What 
sort of real world performance gains could I expect from this patch?

-Ryan
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