On Sunday, January 15, 2023 5:52 PM, Christoph Klassen wrote: > When I was testing the decryption I also tried "gpg --decrypt > test_file.gpg" (without output file) with the 10 GB file and it took 8 > minutes and 47 seconds. I was wondering why it took longer when GnuPG > didn't need to create an output file.
As far as I know, outputting text to the screen (like printf) is a very time consuming operation, it will block you until all printing is complete. gpg --decrypt test_file.gpg without output file will print all the decrypted contents on the screen, which may be the reason why it takes so long.
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