[geeks] DVD based backup software

Charles Shannon Hendrix shannon at widomaker.com
Wed Aug 30 13:10:26 CDT 2006


Wed, 30 Aug 2006 @ 12:09 -0400, der Mouse said:

> I wrote a dd-alike that was specifically designed to overlap reading
> and writing (one process for each, with data passed beween them through
> shared memory), so I know a little about that.  Such things can give
> you at most a factor of two speedup, usually less because the producer
> and consumer are running at widely disparate data rates.  (Unless you
> have unusually slow disk or unusually fast network.)

Did you try your code with g4u? It would be interesting to see if
it made things faster.

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