No, because you are waiting for the disk hardware. Seek time,
rotation time, transfer time, SCSI/IDE bus contention. Nothing
to do with memcpy().
Read the URL, here it is again:
http://cache.is.co.za/squid/opt/performance.html
I think sendfile or something else that's just as fast would be
cool, but I don't believe it's something a lot of people really
need.
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