Write verification? Maybe LC's low level file functions do not verify, whereas the shell command does.
Bob On Mar 23, 2012, at 3:24 PM, Geoff Canyon wrote: > It is stunning to me that this is faster than using a shell command. I did > the same test as before (about thirty files, about 70k each) and copying > them by using binary reads/writes took about one-third the time of using > the shell command. I thought it might be overhead with calling shell, but I > ran it on a single 50MB file, and the binary read/write method was better > than twice as fast there as well. What *possible* overhead could there be > in a shell command that would make it better than twice as slow as > reading/writing the file 16kb at a time? _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
