A Little Story About the `yes` Unix Command

Re:A Little Story About the `yes` Unix Command by xurukefi on Thursday October 12, 2017 @05:48AM (#15456796)

  import sys

  while True:
      sys.stdout.write("y\n" * 2**16)

gives me over 4GiB/s

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Re:A Little Story About the `yes` Unix Command by omlettehead on Thursday October 12, 2017 @03:08PM (#15460447)

Sure, but you're building strings in memory. It might not be a lot of memory, especially if you're able to run Python, but the native `yes` command can run on the smallest of embedded systems, which is why its speed is impressive.

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