Re: Dired C idea

[Arthur Miller]

Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org> writes:

>>>>> I would like to see some benchmark figures first. For example, I'm not 
>>>>> sure
>>>>> that rsync performs better when the target directory does not exist yet,
>>>>> and there's nothing to sync.
>>>>
>>>> I made some comparison between "cp -pr" and "rsync -pr" on shell
>>>> level. [...] "rsync -pr" is slower than "cp -pr".
>>>
>>> Yes, nothing can beat cp;
>>
>> Is cp really bottleneck at all? Isn't it more likely IO that is limiting
>> operation?
>>
>
> cp does (almost) nothing except IO, so indeed IO is the bottleneck. rsync does
> more than IO, so it is slower.

Yes, that is what I meant.

But some nice interface to rsync for other reasons than efficiency would
be nice, maybe partly incorporated in dired, for example sync dirs dwim
style or something similar.