[OT] recommended reading: usenix malicious hardware paper

2008-05-23 Thread Jim Meyering
Here's an awe-inspiring paper. A colleague's summary was apt: "we're all doomed" ;-) http://www.usenix.org/event/leet08/tech/full_papers/king/king_html/ You will view older hardware with more respect. ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gn

Re: cp: performance improvement with small files

2008-05-23 Thread Phillip Susi
Hauke Laging wrote: Hello, I just read an interesting hint in the German shell Usenet group (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>). As I could not find anything about that point in your mailing list archive I would like to mention it here. The author claims that he achieved a huge performance increase (more

Re: cp: performance improvement with small files

2008-05-23 Thread Pádraig Brady
Hauke Laging wrote: > Hello, > > I just read an interesting hint in the German shell Usenet group > (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>). As I could not find anything about > that point in your mailing list archive I would like to mention it here. > > The author claims that he achieved a huge performance incr

cp: performance improvement with small files

2008-05-23 Thread Hauke Laging
Hello, I just read an interesting hint in the German shell Usenet group (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>). As I could not find anything about that point in your mailing list archive I would like to mention it here. The author claims that he achieved a huge performance increase (more than factor 10) when c