Re: Dired C idea

[Peter Oliver]

Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> 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.

Something else to consider is that from the next major version of GNU 
Coreutils, cp will default to copy-on-write (“--reflink=auto”) on supported 
filesystems.  This is lightning fast, and saves disk space too.

I expect that rsync will gain equivalent capabilities in time, but it doesn’t 
have them yet.

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Peter Oliver