Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] eutils.eclass: Add awk wrapper - eawk - edit file in place

[Jeroen Roovers]

On Wed, 18 May 2016 19:31:38 -0400
Göktürk Yüksek <gokturk@g.o> wrote:

> There could be some performance implications. cat will usually do
> slow, buffered I/O. cp tries to be smarter with allocation, i.e. it
> may take advantage of the btrfs specific clone to do a O(1) copy.

Really? We're talking about editing streams of usually a couple of
kilobytes and performance is what you're worried about? Because of
not using one particular filesystem maybe? Really?


     jer