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On 21 Sie, 23:27, "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mail...@dmitry-kazakov.de>
wrote:

> "Still synchronous operations" of items in the group? Come on, grouping
> brings nothing if items are output synchronously to the caller.

Of course it brings a lot - it minimizes the total overhead due to
smaller number of requests.

Ever tried to send each character in a separate mail instead of
sending one mail containing many characters?

> In which
> state relatively to the output is the caller between the ends of a group?

Why should I care? Sometimes I care only about throughput.

> > It is enough to get a clock and measure two simple test programs.
> > I can offer the test programs if needed.
>
> No thanks. We are actually paid for designing such tests, so we have plenty
> of.

Then why do you try so hard to distort this discussion?

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Maciej Sobczak * www.msobczak.com * www.inspirel.com

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