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by 7786655 1953 days ago
>The copy_file_range() system call looks like a relatively straightforward feature; it allows user space to ask the kernel to copy a range of data from one file to another, hopefully applying some optimizations along the way.
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That's exactly what I was asking. The Go developers are knocking themselves out chasing this syscall in the hopes that it might improve performance? Has it been benchmarked?