parallel copy directory, faster than robocopy

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Jay Norwood" <jayn at prismnet.com> wrote in message 
news:jhcplo$1jj8$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Attached is the source for a small parallel app that copies a source 
> folder to a destination.  It creates the directory structure first using 
> the breadth ordering, then uses a parallel foreach loop with the taskPool 
> to copy all the regular files in parallel.  On my corei7, this copied a 
> 1.5GB folder with around 36K entries to a destination in about 11.5 secs 
> (src and dest on the same ssd drive).  This was about a second better than 
> robocopy, which is the fastest alternative I could find.   The regular 
> win7-64 copy takes 41 secs for the same folder.
>
> I'd like to add wildcard processing for the sources, but haven't found a 
> good example.

Nice!

Is it possible this could increase disk fragmentation though? Or do the 
filesystem drivers on Win/Lin/etc work in a way that mitigates that 
possibility?