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Re:The Effect of Pipe Capacity on Unix Pipeline Performance by duskwuff on Thursday February 27, 2020 @04:55PM (#22438377)
Very little. The Linux default changed from 4 KB to 64 KB in 2.6.11, and the macOS XNU kernel will actually adjust pipe sizes dynamically based on the size of writes and system memory pressure.
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