On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 03:21:10PM -0600, Peter L. Wargo wrote: > IIRC, the G5 has hardware sqrt.
Rsync doesn't call sqrt -- it just does a simple little integer estimation. It is probable that using a hardware sqrt call would be faster than rsync's estimator, but taking only 0.00000041 seconds per file instead of 0.00000232 seconds per file(*) is not going to make much difference, even with a really large number of really large files. * Actual measured values for taking the sqrt of 837,293,847,384 on a fairly slow VIA processor. Note that the estimator gets faster on smaller numbers. ..wayne.. -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
