<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 3 February 2016 at 20:51, Khem Raj <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:raj.khem@gmail.com" target="_blank">raj.khem@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":4zw" class="a3s" style="overflow:hidden">it does not create files for intermediate objects so if you have slow<br>
media it can be significant<br>
but if you have SSDs then it might be diminished.</div></blockquote></div><br>That's the theory but in my experience with a modern file system on spinning rust the file is so short-lived it doesn't appear to actually touch the disk at all... at least I didn't notice any performance change when adding just -pipe in a test.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Ross</div></div>