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> 2.5 GB/s, that is 8 Bytes/clockcycle or 2 loops/clockcycle, each loop
> consisting of calculation and fwrite-syscall.
> Processors can do a _lot_ in one clockcycle nowadays:)
This here is one multiplication, one add, one syscall, one jump for 4
bytes; so you are saying the machine is able to do two syscalls + change in
a clockcycle?! I think Linus will be pretty pleased by that level of
performance from the kernel ;-)
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