Re: tar x cpu bound

[Robert Swindells <rjs%fdy2.co.uk@localhost>]

Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost> wrote:
>On Sat, May 10, 2025 at 10:52:51AM +0200, Edgar Fu? wrote:
>> Even if tar (and pax, which I also tried) was to use stdio, this would not 
>> explain being bound by /system/ cpu time.
>
> Sure it does, because stdio was issuing thousands of small writes instead
> of single large writes.

The initial post stated that they were small files in the tar archive.