revCopyFile slow?

Maarten Koopmans maarten.koopmans at gmail.com
Sun Apr 10 10:49:24 EDT 2011


I'll try the command shell, I hope the command window doesn't show.
Blocking behavior is another fear ( why revCopyFile is unacceptable).

Thanks for all the hints and advice everybody!

--Maarten

On Sunday, April 10, 2011, Jim Ault <jimaultwins at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Apr 10, 2011, at 5:31 AM, Mark Schonewille wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Jim Ault
> Las Vegas
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> On 10 apr 2011, at 14:14, Maarten Koopmans wrote:
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> Really?  Ever benchmarked open, read, write on files? How slow are they?
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