etc.curl: Formal review begin

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 8/30/11 3:34 PM, Marco Leise wrote:
> 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.

Why would more seeking be involved?

Andrei