Name: Anonymous 2011-09-26 2:54
Tell me about your cat(s), /prog/.
mercury tmp # time dd if=/dev/zero bs=4096 count=1048576 | cat > /dev/null
1048576+0 records in
1048576+0 records out
4294967296 bytes (4.3 GB) copied, 1.77577 s, 2.4 GB/s
real 0m1.776s
user 0m0.218s
sys 0m1.576s
mercury tmp # time dd if=/dev/zero bs=4096 count=1048576 | ./a.out > /dev/null
1048576+0 records in
1048576+0 records out
4294967296 bytes (4.3 GB) copied, 59.5882 s, 72.1 MB/s
real 0m59.590s
user 0m57.176s
sys 0m2.389s