Once I set out to prove that wrong.
My test was purely cpu bound, to see the real benfit from the omptimization.
I have since lost my resaults... but you can do it yourself... Here is what I did
time cat/dev/kcore | gzip -f >/dev/null
My resaults showed that whith correct optimization I would gain upto 10% increse in throughput.
But, in the real world, the gain would be less.
Once I set out to prove that wrong. My test was purely cpu bound, to see the real benfit from the omptimization. I have since lost my resaults ... but you can do it yourself ... Here is what I did
time cat /dev/kcore | gzip -f > /dev/null
My resaults showed that whith correct optimization I would gain upto 10% increse in throughput.
But, in the real world, the gain would be less.
Bought mine last october... The counter on it now say 3800 pics :-)
So, I use mine alot.