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From: Jean-Pierre Rosen <rosen@adalog.fr>
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Subject: Re: Howto read line from a stream
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Maciej Sobczak a �crit :

> And, to make it a bit more interesting, I have recently run a small
> interprocess communication (based of local TCP/IP) benchmark in two
> environments:
> - Mac OS
> - Windows XP in the virtual machine running on the same Mac OS
> 
> You might think that the second environment was obviously in a
> disadvantage.
> 
> To my big surprise, the second test was repeatably and consistently
> faster. Not by a large margin, but measurably (several percent). Of
> course Mac OS is not Linux, so I do not want to conclude anything
> about Linux this way, but certainly I would not be terribly shocked to
> see something similar happening on Linux as well.
> Interesting, isn't it?
> 
The only constant I have seen about efficiency is that when you do the
measurement, you are always surprised by the result...
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