Thor Lancelot Simon <t...@panix.com> wrote: >On Sat, May 10, 2025 at 10:52:51AM +0200, Edgar Fu? wrote: >> Even if tar (and pax, which I also tried) was to use stdio, this would not >> explain being bound by /system/ cpu time. > > Sure it does, because stdio was issuing thousands of small writes instead > of single large writes.
The initial post stated that they were small files in the tar archive.
