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From: mwm@eris.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Pipes
Message-ID: <2337@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: Sat, 24-Jan-87 22:34:00 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan 24 22:34:00 1987
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In article <946@tekred.UUCP> joels@tekred.UUCP (Joel Swank) writes:
>>The key thing about a pipe is that it's a FIFO queue, with a limited
>>buffer size.
>
>The real advantage of pipes over files that imitate them is that all
>processes in the chain can run simultaneously. 

Which also means that the processes can overlap I/O and processing
with each other, so that the group takes less wall-clock time than it
would if you had to run them sequentially.

Ain't real pipes neat things? Of course, to get this advantage, you
gotta have true multitasking....

	<mike