revCopyFile slow?

[Jim Ault]

On Apr 10, 2011, at 5:31 AM, Mark Schonewille wrote:
> Maarten,
> That depends on many factors. I have been in situations where  
> writing a few tens of thousands of files too hours using read/write,  
> while using the shell command took a few minutes. I have also been  
> in situations where read/write was actually the preferred method. If  
> it is about speed, though, I'd go with the command line. You can do  
> the benchmarking if it really matters to you.
>
And if you program your progress bar to show
movie trailers, sports highlights, or car crashes,
the user won't mind so much if the file writing process is slower.

Jim Ault
Las Vegas

> On 10 apr 2011, at 14:14, Maarten Koopmans wrote:
>
>> Really?  Ever benchmarked open, read, write on files? How slow are  
>> they?
>