etc.curl: Formal review begin

[Marco Leise]

Am 30.08.2011, 20:48 Uhr, schrieb Andrei Alexandrescu  
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org>:

> On 8/30/11 1:10 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> std.file.copy is synchronous. Would the suggestion then be to change it  
>> to be
>> asynchronous or to create a second function (e.g. copyAsync) which does  
>> an
>> asynchrous copy?
>
> I think std.file.copy should do whatever the heck is best to copy a  
> file. As such, it should be transparently asynchronous. It would be  
> great if such a task caught your fancy - and don't forget to test speed  
> under a few circumstances.
>
> Andrei

I expect the performance to degrade if you copy asynchronously on a single  
HDD, since more seeking is involved. If that is true, then only an  
identification of the source and destination media through operating  
system APIs can yield optimal performance.