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Article #17388Re: OS/2 Wishlist - First Edition
From: Bjorn Fahller
Date: Sat, 08 Jan 1994 16:38
Date: Sat, 08 Jan 1994 16:38
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In <2gmhm0$d3m@schonberg.cs.nyu.edu> dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes: >Why on earth would dual threading xcopy help on a monoprocessor, I find >that xcopy runs essentially at disk speed. I would think the only case >in which it would help is when copying between diskette and hard disk. The number of processors will matter little, but the intelligence of your disk controller(s) will if you xcopy between physical drives. (if they're using write behind caches in HW, the difference will be close to 0 anyway, but I believe that to be unusual). _ /Bjorn. -- // Bjorn Fahller Phone: +46 920 99719 <Team-OS/2> // Professorsvagen 91 Keeper of the OS/2 archive at ftp.luth.se // S-977 51 Lulea (130.240.18.2). "Unemployed" due to lacking // Sweden disk space.
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