[ILUG] Bigger pipes...

[Paul Jakma]

On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Paul Jakma wrote:

> > takes 20secs of CPU time.  Doing them together takes 40secs,
> > while, in theory, the I/O and CPU could happen in parallel, giving
> > a run time of 20secs.
>
> hmm... usually i'd defer to your wisdom kenn, but in this case i can
> not see how you think that you can reduce 20secs for reading, 20secs
> for gzipping to less than 20+20secs.

just to be clearer and avoid obvious retorts:

...i do not see how you think you can get extra parallelism beyond any
you are getting already...

--paulj