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		totony on Oct 12, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Little Story About the `yes` Unix Command benchmarking is useless when comparing different conditions ie your computer is probably faster than op's

naranha on Oct 12, 2017 [–]

Of course. Though 37MiB/s compared to 10Gi/s probably means that the GNU version used by Fedora has a faster implementation than Apple's version.

totony on Oct 16, 2017 | [–]

You're right, my mistake, I didn't check the speed of the OP's

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